Apple cloud hacked.

[zzz]

The apple cloud has been hacked and hundreds of celebs have had their very personal photos taken and distributed over the net.

And bang center of many of them is an apple product. Probably the best advertisement ever.

Just think how much Apple would have had to spend to get a naked Jennifer Lawrence holding one of their products for the world to see?

....well i guess we will no doubt find out soon.

 

[spurdon]

I'd love a look at Jennifer lawrence's Apple anyone got a link?

 

[zzz]

Go through Reddit that way you will save yourself from viruses. They keep getting taken down and put up again all over the internet.

It is the second highest download on Utorrent, just behind "how to train your dragon 2"

Apple will be well and truly bricking it.

Specially as the guy who is releasing these has said there are also video's so im sure alot of paranoid celebs will be hammering Apples execs as we speak

 

[meee93]

The guy/group who's releasing it is making an abosulte killing in bitcoins. He'll be well set for life if he survives this..

 

[spursgirl_4_life]

Whilst I don't understand why anyone would want naked pictures of themselves - especially as explicit as some of the ones I have seen of certain people - I do feel sorry for them all. It's not like they posed for Playboy, these are private pictures that have been leaked.

 

[spurdon]

spursgirl_4_life - 2/9/2014 09:04

Whilst I don't understand why anyone would want naked pictures of themselves - especially as explicit as some of the ones I have seen of certain people - I do feel sorry for them all. It's not like they posed for Playboy, these are private pictures that have been leaked.

I think its obvious and harmless human sexuality mate. I hope your love life is not so impoverished that you do "really understand"..As for the hacked cloud, so much for the inflated claims these companies make about security. I don't even have a facebook page. I work on the simple belief if you upload it you have published it. That said I think nothing less of Ms Lawrence or Ms Dunst having seen now seen the few inches of them I hadn't in various bikini photo shoots.

 

[spursgirl_4_life]

spurdon - 2/9/2014 09:41

spursgirl_4_life - 2/9/2014 09:04

Whilst I don't understand why anyone would want naked pictures of themselves - especially as explicit as some of the ones I have seen of certain people - I do feel sorry for them all. It's not like they posed for Playboy, these are private pictures that have been leaked.

I think its obvious and harmless human sexuality mate. I hope your love life is not so impoverished that you do "really understand"..As for the hacked cloud, so much for the inflated claims these companies make about security. I don't even have a facebook page. I work on the simple belief if you upload it you have published it. That said I think nothing less of Ms Lawrence or Ms Dunst having seen now seen the few inches of them I hadn't in various bikini photo shoots.

I just have no want to have naked pictures of myself, is all. I can just look down and see it anyway! :17:

I don't use iCloud, but from what I gather, it automatically uploads any picture you add to your phone, to their server/database. It's a setting that you have to opt out of, rather than opt in to, so I imagine most people who have had stuff leaked weren't aware that was the case. From what I was reading this morning, it seems that it was an issue with a password block that allowed hackers to hack in. Where most things will lock an account after three or so incorrect attempts, there was no block in place, so hackers could keep trying random combinations as a password till they hit the jackpot.

Like you say, I think no less of them either.

 

[spurdon]

spursgirl_4_life - 2/9/2014 10:26

spurdon - 2/9/2014 09:41

spursgirl_4_life - 2/9/2014 09:04

Whilst I don't understand why anyone would want naked pictures of themselves - especially as explicit as some of the ones I have seen of certain people - I do feel sorry for them all. It's not like they posed for Playboy, these are private pictures that have been leaked.

I think its obvious and harmless human sexuality mate. I hope your love life is not so impoverished that you do "really understand"..As for the hacked cloud, so much for the inflated claims these companies make about security. I don't even have a facebook page. I work on the simple belief if you upload it you have published it. That said I think nothing less of Ms Lawrence or Ms Dunst having seen now seen the few inches of them I hadn't in various bikini photo shoots.

I just have no want to have naked pictures of myself, is all. I can just look down and see it anyway! :17:

I don't use iCloud, but from what I gather, it automatically uploads any picture you add to your phone, to their server/database. It's a setting that you have to opt out of, rather than opt in to, so I imagine most people who have had stuff leaked weren't aware that was the case. From what I was reading this morning, it seems that it was an issue with a password block that allowed hackers to hack in. Where most things will lock an account after three or so incorrect attempts, there was no block in place, so hackers could keep trying random combinations as a password till they hit the jackpot.

Like you say, I think no less of them either.

Ok this is getting weird...lol.. but I in my own humble (but considerable experience) it's not about You having photo's of Your bits SG!! Get that you can have a peep anytime you want Lol. The fun is all to be had in the taking of the ..ahem various photo sets I have found. These women were actually smart because they do what I have always said to my girlfriends, keep those images yourself. Those intimate moments..outfits ideas ect... should be the ownership of the lady; why this is bad is that despite the big claims of the icloud the assured privacy was bogus. Girls keep the images never let the guy have them store them on your own usb or drive. You can have all the fun and none of the risk. I hope they all sue Apple.

...You know I somehow credited you with well more imagination :12:

 

[spursgirl_4_life]

:59: :59: :59:

Let's stop talking about my bits now.

 

[spurdon]

spursgirl_4_life - 2/9/2014 12:14

:59: :59: :59:

Let's stop talking about my bits now.

:1: :1: :1: :1: :17:

 

[spurdon]

Was it really a simple case of the pass word lock SG? That is a joke. Mind you do you remember last year when someone "hacked" various vital Spurs accounts because they were so poorly protected.

 

[spursgirl_4_life]

From what I read, I don't know if that's true or not, or if Apple have confirmed or commented on it.

 

[spurdon]

If it is wow. Like I say law suits. Anyway I'll never watch Downton Abbey in the same way again.

 

[ahx00]

It's the cloud. How anyone thought this was secure enough to backup this sort of stuff, is beyond me.

 

[meee93]

ahx00 - 3/9/2014 22:30

It's the cloud. How anyone thought this was secure enough to backup this sort of stuff, is beyond me.

Alot of back ups are done automatically so it's not a case of them chossing to back it up there, more of the phone just doing it automatically I'd guess..

 

[meee93]

spursgirl_4_life - 2/9/2014 13:01

From what I read, I don't know if that's true or not, or if Apple have confirmed or commented on it.

You'd think they would have a basic security feature like that in place, especially considering how apple push themselves as being so safe. Which is probably a reason why they were targeted too..

 

[ahx00]

meee93 - 3/9/2014 23:57

Alot of back ups are done automatically so it's not a case of them chossing to back it up there, more of the phone just doing it automatically I'd guess..

If that's the case then Apple need to shoulder a considerable amount of the blame. Forcing someone to upload sensitive information to any sort of internet-based system is highly irresponsible.

meee93 - 3/9/2014 23:58
You'd think they would have a basic security feature like that in place, especially considering how apple push themselves as being so safe. Which is probably a reason why they were targeted too..

It sounds like the hackers targeted the password recovery system. All it requires is the email address, date of birth, and 2 (out of 31) security questions.

For someone in the public eye, that is awfully bad security. Strangely enough, the email address itself is probably the most secure part of that for them... everything else could be obtained from studiously reading up on them. The Guardian did a piece on it. It was pretty terrible, but it did mention that - essentially - all it takes is some research.

favourite teacher? Well you know how old they are and where they were born, so even if you didn't know the exact school, it gives you a rough idea. Usually it's easily found out anyway. From that you can check registers to find out who was teaching there, then it's just a case of trying all the answers until you get it right.

Etc etc.

 

[oxfordspur]

Im furious at the breech. They have hacked images of me naked, but I am yet to find any leaked on the net...

 

[Spursex]

ahx00 - 4/9/2014 06:45

meee93 - 3/9/2014 23:57

Alot of back ups are done automatically so it's not a case of them chossing to back it up there, more of the phone just doing it automatically I'd guess..

If that's the case then Apple need to shoulder a considerable amount of the blame. Forcing someone to upload sensitive information to any sort of internet-based system is highly irresponsible.

meee93 - 3/9/2014 23:58
You'd think they would have a basic security feature like that in place, especially considering how apple push themselves as being so safe. Which is probably a reason why they were targeted too..

It sounds like the hackers targeted the password recovery system. All it requires is the email address, date of birth, and 2 (out of 31) security questions.

For someone in the public eye, that is awfully bad security. Strangely enough, the email address itself is probably the most secure part of that for them... everything else could be obtained from studiously reading up on them. The Guardian did a piece on it. It was pretty terrible, but it did mention that - essentially - all it takes is some research.

favourite teacher? Well you know how old they are and where they were born, so even if you didn't know the exact school, it gives you a rough idea. Usually it's easily found out anyway. From that you can check registers to find out who was teaching there, then it's just a case of trying all the answers until you get it right.

Etc etc.

There are businesses and consultancies who trawl databases and use algorithms and spiders to test just these types of vulnerabilities and then use this approach for penetration testing/hacking - so it really shouldn't be any surprise to anyone when a few bright sparks take these tools and figure out that they can create some mischief and make some money from doing it...

The tough bit isn't breaking dumb passwords, it's covering your tracks, as no matter how proxies, how many multiple routers and hops.identities you hide behind now - the tools exist now to trace the origins anywhere in the World and once you identify the sources, you're a few steps away from identify the culprits.

Why these people aren't told to use one of the myriad of password generator/safe apps, I'll never know.

 

[ahx00]

Event they're not 100% infallible. Sure, a hugely, hugely high percentage of people using high quality security measures will be safe, but that doesn't mean that sensitive information, stored online, is safe.

The Chinese are constantly hacking corporate and government servers to make their piss-poor copies of cutting edge technology (allegedly!) and those sorts of servers are amongst the highest protected on earth.

As far as i'm concerned, the iCloud (and cloud in general) was an accident waiting to happen.