How safe is your phone? If you feel pretty safe then some celbrities may tell you different. Several clibrities such as Jenny McCarthy, Rihanna, Kristin Dunst, Kate Upton, Mary E Winstead, and Jennifer Lawrence had their phone’s hacked. This wasn’t any simple hacking attempt, it was a huge effort. This effort released many personal nude photos of the clebrities listed above and many many more! The hacker breached Apple’s iCloud servers and released these photos. Apple has declined to comment on the situation. Apple has yet to confirm that it’s iCloud service was involved in the leak. 
Sunday, August 31st was when the anonymous hacker going by the name of “Tristin” released the pictures on the site, 4chan. Tristin may have obtained more than 423 nude images on over 100 different celebrities. Within hours of posting the pictures on 4chan, Twitter blew up with over thousands of tweets about the photographs. Some celebrities, including the well known Jennifer Lawrence, confirmed that the photos were genuine. Others such as Ariana Grande claimed the pictures weren’t real. Jennifer Lawrence’s representative stated that the photos were stolen, calling the hacking act as “a flagrant violation of privacy.” A spokesperson also added “The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence.”
The 4chan hacker, Tristin, confirmed that the breach was a conspiracy which involved more than one individual and “the result of several months of long and hard work.” Tristin stated in the thread were the pictures were posted on monday after midnight “Guys, just to let you know I didn’t do this by myself,” wrote the anonymous hacker in the post thread just after midnight on Monday. There are several other people who were in on it and I needed to count on to make this happen. This is the result of several months of long and hard work by all involved. We appreciate your donations and applaud your excitement. I will soon be moving to another location from which I will continue to post.” Tristan offered more explicit material in exchange for bitcoin payments. Tristan claims to have over 60 nude selfies and an explicit sex film of the Oscar-winning actress, Jennifer Lawrence, which can be obtained through a bitcoin payment.
The next day after the leaks, the FBI said that it has begun an investigation on the incident. The FBI stated “The FBI is aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals, and is addressing the matter. Any further comment would be inappropriate at this time.” Next time anyone thinks of taking a nude picture of yourself, don’t. If you don’t you will never find yourself in a situation like this.
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Sources:
http://thehackernews.com/2014/09/reported-apple-icloud-hack-leaked_1.html
nice job
So many fools still blindly follow Apple. This is proof that Apple is a weak company as evidenced by the major security breach. Apple stock has plummeted and their sales of the new i6 will suffer.Sadly,many people still want to believe in Apple even after the breach. Wisely several celebrities are backing away from any Apple product and are recommending others chose any product but Apple. Wake up people what will it take to break your confidence in Apple products? Perhaps if it was your personal information publically broadcast, you’d then chose a more secure product.
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Hacking apple cloud server might be good lesson for them for selling iphone so expensive but sharing nude is not the correct act.
Ah, god I love Linux… I did the right thing in backing away from crapple inc.
when thumb pring and retina scan are used to track people they should have known they were not bullet proof.
Funny because 4chan started anonymous… Support your true home anonfag…
Haha. These so called celebraties are a joke. Lets see. If you dont want pics and vidz of you naked. Dont take em. Seems like everybody is getting hacked into lately. But wait i should feel bad for the multi millionair who apparently cant buy any good sense. Lmfao ooook
That’s ridiculous! Do you mean that persons should not take pictures of them naked? That’s a blatant invasion of the rights!
If those photo’s were really that important to them, then they wouldn’t have put them into a fucking could storage… As a side note, they shouldn’t have taken those photos anyway, they’re all role models to children around the world, this is why some kids grow up with the wrong thoughts in their head…
Ha Ha Ha… dumbass celebrities. can’t stand mainstream these days. It’s all fake. They get a nice gov’t check to shut them up about what the gov’t is doing. Worst part is that people buy into it like it’s candy. WAKE UP AMERICA!