Can we talk about the apparent iCloud break-in?

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The Nude Trading Network® finally reveals itself.
 
OK, let me get this straight:

Some dude used an exploit in icloud and now has a ton of nude celebrity pics.
He is getting bitcoin donations to continue posting them.
/b/ have also tricked women on twitter to post pics of themselves topless to "support" Jennifer Lawerance.
There is no end in sight.

WHAT IS THIS?!
 
OK, let me get this straight:

Some dude used an exploit in icloud and now has a ton of nude celebrity pics.
He is getting bitcoin donations to continue posting them.
/b/ have also tricked women on twitter to post pics of themselves topless to "support" Jennifer Lawerance.
There is no end in sight.

WHAT IS THIS?!

Happy labor day!
Humanity continues to be scumanity.
 
Right in time for the iPhone 6 launch.

Tim Cook is going to have his hands full with this mess.
 
IANAL, but isn't it illegal to even be looking at these photos? You don't have permission from the copyright owners to view them...
 
I'm wondering why in the world celebrities keep naked photos of themselves on the cloud

Agreed, i think it sucks to have happened but if every day people need to be careful.... celebrities shouldn't consider themselves immune to scandal. You shouldn't be uploading personal / naked photos on the internet for the world to see.
 
OK, let me get this straight:

Some dude used an exploit in icloud and now has a ton of nude celebrity pics.
He is getting bitcoin donations to continue posting them.
/b/ have also tricked women on twitter to post pics of themselves topless to "support" Jennifer Lawerance.
There is no end in sight.

WHAT IS THIS?!

What a day. What a year. Oh internet...
 
I feel sympathy for anyone who has pics leaked, but a bit more so for people who were hacked. Even fucking more so for people who were under the impression that their pics were deleted long ago.

I guess if people weren't aware of stuff like icloud before they sure as hell will be now, though I guess that's not much consolation to the people involved.
 
login https://www.icloud.com/

see all their e-mails, photos, contacts, text messages

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<thats Mileys mom that had her icloud hacked

maybe now that more celebs are finally shown to the general public to be affected by this something will be done

since the general public will now start to wonder about their own iclouds
 
There is a photo Kate Upton's back just after her lover ejaculated on it, and I clicked on it. Seeing that felt wrong. The bad kind of wrong.

It is wrong to see someone in their most intimate moments but we are also human and many of us when hear the words "leaked nudes" just want to see that shit, it's human curiosity that fucks us.
 
Yeah, this stuff is just so personal. It really sucks that this stuff is out there. I looked, but damn I started to feel bad real quick.
 
most if not all the picture were gather from the icloud exploit. they been collecting these pics for a awhile now.

exploits and socially engineering and guessing passwords are two different things. No confirmation as to which was used.

does icloud give you the option to not sync photos and videos?

and is it an app which comes with the OS?

1) Yes.

2) It's built into the system itself.
 
Man, this is really awful. Of course I find most of these women beautiful and, unfortunately, have looked at some of the pictures, but this is a fucking terrible breach of privacy. Hopefully this is going to be a wake up call for a lot of people on how insecure the internet is for personal info.
 
Nothing wrong with taking nude photos.

Save the blame for the creep getting off humiliating these women.
 
does icloud give you the option to not sync photos and videos?

and is it an app which comes with the OS?

It's a feature called Photostream. It syncs your latest photos automatically among all devices (Mac/iOS/AppleTV) via Apple's iCloud infrastructure.

To disable it on iOS, go to Settings > iCloud > Photos > My Photostream
 
Personally I think it's Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, all those competing companies doing this to weaken apple on cloud storage. Soon nothing can stop the Microsoft cloud, i bet they even used their cloud to hack this.
 
thanks for the replies everyone. I don't have an Iphone but I was wondering if syncing your android with gmail does the same thing and upload everything. I also have the gcloud app on my phone. Just sync my call logs and contacts if I ever lose the phone.
 
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