This celebrity phone icloud hacking scandal

[daydream**believer]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/fbi-addressing-massive-celebrity-photo-hack/story?id=25200140

Some of these photos were taken years ago and were actually deleted off the phones. The hacker has posted some of the pics but claims to have more and will post them to those who pay him for them.

Im seeing so many comments on the Sunrise fb page saying "Well, they shouldnt have nude photos if they dont want them to be published" etc.

Heres my thoughts on it....

This isnt even really about fact the pics were nude ones.. Some of the victims comments show that they dont really care about the pics. What they care about is the fact that someone felt they had the right to hack into other peoples private photos.

This hacker must of spent hours and hours breaking into icloud and then looking at hundreds of photos of hundreds of different celebs just looking for these nude shots. Their personal photos. Photos they didnt put on twitter, fb etc.

Forget that they are celebrities for a moment. How would you feel? Do you have photos of your kids on your phone? What if some pedo did this hack and took the photos of your kids and then put them on child porn sites? Would that be ok?

These woman are victims of a theft. Its as simple as that imo.

I hope they catch this guy and he is jailed.

[daydream**believer]

"Apparently even if you delete the pics, your phone will still back them up automatically"

yep, thats right.

[daydream**believer]

The hacker is on the run

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2740003/Celeb-hacker-run-Mystery-man-stole-celeb-nude-pics-a...

[fourandsixpants]

yes it is about ownership and security IMO.....raises the question though that if certain 'people' and agencies are allowed to do this then why not others?.......

.....questions, questions?!

[daydream**believer]

the hacker has said he had a several people helping him and it was "months of long hard work"

What a creepy perve he must be  and what a shame he cant devote his computer talents to something more useful

[karliandjacko]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Agree with you there, DDB. It's a celebrity- targetted cybercrime to search someone's private pictures and upload them to social media.

I can't help wondering why someone  eg Jennifer Lawrence would have 60 nude pictures of herself, though.

Surely one front and one back is all  you need lol.

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There is a good chance it was a major security breach of icloud, according to the reports I've seen. 

It's suspected to be via the find my phone feature.  If they can hack into the accounts of these people they can get into anyone's.  

If your password is weak enoughfor their program to break they can access anything you have backed up to icloud.

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They had a guy on the radio this morning saying how to disable the back-up default on your phone.You have to go into settings. That's all I remember.

Apparently even if you delete the pics, your phone will still back them up automatically.

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No, your phone doesn't just randomly back up to icloud without your permission. It's something you set up when setting up the phone.  

The point made was to make sure you hve strong passwords.There are about 500 commonly used passwords that are the first to be tried by crooks trying to hack into accounts.  Once they get into your cloud account they might be able to restore deleted photos.

Backing up content and cloud storage is better than losing the photos and other documents in most cases.  Password strength is the key to security on the net and in the cloud.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

yes it is about ownership and security IMO.....raises the question though that if certain 'people' and agencies are allowed to do this then why not others?.......

.....questions, questions?!

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why are people not allowed to steal private nude photos

and share them on the internet?

really?  you need to ask that?

[icyfroth]

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Agree with you there, DDB. It's a celebrity- targetted cybercrime to search someone's private pictures and upload them to social media.

I can't help wondering why someone  eg Jennifer Lawrence would have 60 nude pictures of herself, though.

Surely one front and one back is all  you need lol.

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There is a good chance it was a major security breach of icloud, according to the reports I've seen. 

It's suspected to be via the find my phone feature.  If they can hack into the accounts of these people they can get into anyone's.  

If your password is weak enoughfor their program to break they can access anything you have backed up to icloud.

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They had a guy on the radio this morning saying how to disable the back-up default on your phone.You have to go into settings. That's all I remember.

Apparently even if you delete the pics, your phone will still back them up automatically.

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No, your phone doesn't just randomly back up to icloud without your permission. It's something you set up when setting up the phone.  

The point made was to make sure you hve strong passwords.There are about 500 commonly used passwords that are the first to be tried by crooks trying to hack into accounts.  Once they get into your cloud account they might be able to restore deleted photos.

Backing up content and cloud storage is better than losing the photos and other documents in most cases.  Password strength is the key to security on the net and in the cloud.

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no he didn't say it backed up to cloud. I think it was to picasa.

[karliandjacko]

Whatever he said doesn't matter. What do you think the cloud is? 

iphones will only back up to what the owner has set them to back up to.  You have to have an account on whatever cloud site you are backing up to, regardless of whether it's icloud, picassa, dropbox, photobucket, drive or whatever.

[icyfroth]

hmm ok I have no real idea about it but the phone wasn't "set" to back up to picasa in this example, it did it by default. You had to go into settings to disable it from doing that.

[karliandjacko]

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@icyfroth wrote:

hmm ok I have no real idea about it but the phone wasn't "set" to back up to picasa in this example, it did it by default. You had to go into settings to disable it from doing that.

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You need to download an app to auto upload to picasa, or anywhere else. It is not something that is done by default on auto without any input from the user on an iphone or any other type of phone or device.