Can we talk about the apparent iCloud break-in?

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Right in time for the iPhone 6 launch.

Tim Cook is going to have his hands full with this mess.
Probably not even gonna to be addressed by Apple, and if it is, it will be a small note ending in "Apple recommends using the two-step verification for Apple ID".
 
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.

There is an option to sync your photos. If you opted out when you first got your phone nothing would have been uploaded. But if you accepted, then yes, your photos would now be synced somewhere in Google's "cloud". And deleting them is pretty difficult too, or at least I found it took way too much effort to do it. The sort of thing where I'd imagine it is easily possible a lot of people would think they deleted some photos, but haven't actually removed them from the "cloud". That said, I have no experience with iCloud.
 
I'm a pervert on the internet just like anybody else but something about these photos are just stomach churning. One or two would of been fine but the volume and the intimacy of the pictures is getting into snuff film levels of creepiness.
 
I gotta say it sucks that this stuff got out and I hope the guy who hacked their accounts gets locked up.

But this is also a huge lesson in taking nude photos on yourself and saving them somewhere. Its just a bad idea. These photos are out in the internet now and forever and honestly, some of them are pretty well...intriguing so they'll never be forgotten.
 
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

iCloud.com does not let you view photos nor text messages, and only shows @icloud.com emails and contacts stored in iCloud itself (no different than gmail.com or contacts.google.com).
 
Apparently there is an underage photo of an actress, who's still underage, god fucking damn this shit has turned vile.
 
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?!
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Your run down is hilarious and technically true, which makes it even more hilarious.

Feel bad for the people who've had their personal lives posted for all to see. Then again, I've heard way too often over the past 18 months that "nothing to hide, no need for privacy". Maybe we can talk about how privacy is still kinda important? Right?
 
How can so many people have naked pictures on icloud? Am I so out of touch that I'm shocked by the sheer number of that list?

Photos taken on an iOS device upload to iCloud, as a backup, by default. It needs to disabled from the settings.

As a way to save your photos, it's great. But it can be hacked like any other service, such as via social engineering.
 
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?!

The ones asking for bit coins just seems like people who wants to easily get some money, not the actual leaker.

And no one really knows how he did this, might not have been an exploit at all, could just be bad password and email security.
 
I'm still surprised at how many people take nudes in the first place. I don't get it, but then again I don't look as good as most celebrities.
 
So many people though?

High profile celebrities can prove to be someone's time, specially if it was carried out by a group of skilled individuals. People out there exist who are really good at this shit

Even if iCloud was flawless, there's always a weak link in the chain that can be exploited to eventually follow a breadcrumb trail to someone's password. For example, most people recycle passwords and these celebrities were probably no exception. So someone could potentially obtain the email address they used for some online shopping, guess their way to the last digits of a credit card or use a receipt they found in the trash, reset that password, use that password to reset another email account that might lead to the iCloud account, etc. Thats just one example of the many ways this could be accomplished no hacking or vulnerabilities necessary. Just some good old fashioned social engineering.

This will likely result in Apple implementing mandatory 2-step verification for iCloud accounts.
 
Apparently there is an underage photo of an actress, who's still underage, god fucking damn this shit has turned vile.

Yeah...This came to my mind immediately after I heard there were Ariana Grande nudes. Didn't she recently turn 18 or something?

EDIT: Oh, never mind, she's 21. Still a good chance that a few of these pics might be her or others people from when they were underage.
 
I'm surprised people are so surprised about te women taking nudes.

Every woman I've been involved with in the internet age has shared some sort of racy photo with me over the internet. Tons of random girls on forums and whatnot have as well. Same wth the guys I know. Most have sent pics to someone.

Hell even before the smartphone age it was popular to have digital cam photos.
 
I think Putin did this to distract us from Ukraine.
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.

And Stump thinks I'm crazy. I don't see what a state actor would gain from this, most people are already largely apathetic and very anti-escalation anyway. And a big company would never do things like this. The risk of being discovered far outweighs any potential benefit.
 
I'm surprised people are so surprised about te women taking nudes.

Every woman I've been involved with in the internet age has shared some sort of racy photo with me over the internet. Tons of random girls on forums and whatnot have as well. Same wth the guys I know. Most have sent pics to someone.

Hell even before the smartphone age it was popular to have digital cam photos.

I must be from another planet.
 
I'm surprised people are so surprised about te women taking nudes.

Every woman I've been involved with in the internet age has shared some sort of racy photo with me over the internet. Tons of random girls on forums and whatnot have as well. Same wth the guys I know. Most have sent pics to someone.

Hell even before the smartphone age it was popular to have digital cam photos.

I don't think anyone is surprised. People are more surprised about the leak itself.
 
Mods can I have a tag so everybody can know my excitement over those Mary Elizabeth Winstead pics? Ya boy has been waiting too long to let morals affect this.
 
I'm surprised people are so surprised about te women taking nudes.

Every woman I've been involved with in the internet age has shared some sort of racy photo with me over the internet. Tons of random girls on forums and whatnot have as well. Same wth the guys I know. Most have sent pics to someone.

Hell even before the smartphone age it was popular to have digital cam photos.

Well yeah but out of those girls, who had their pictures stolen from their phones and posted on popular internet sites for the whole world to see against their will?
 
I don't think anyone is surprised. People are more surprised about the leak itself.

Well yeah but out of those girls, who had their pictures stolen from their phones and posted on popular internet sites for the whole world to see against their will?

Well multiple people expressed surprise the pictures existed in the first place.

I'm sure numerous girls I know have had boyfriends post photos places or share them with friends though. They aren't famous so it doesn't end up on the news or shared a billion times lol.
 
I don't think anyone is surprised. People are more surprised about the leak itself.

I'm surprised. One of those alleged Upton pics on twitter...why would you allow such a picture to be taken, even if your bf is an okay pitcher? (pun sort of intended)

Am I just out of touch?

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