Thank you iCloud. How Watson, Lawrence, Dunst and other celebrities reacted to leaks of personal photos

Apple's cloud service is increasingly becoming the anti-hero of scandals that receive wide publicity. And this time, the attackers really managed to amaze even the public, accustomed to various kinds of leaks - almost a hundred intimate pictures got on the Web.

For the first time, they talked about getting access to intimate materials stored on the cloud by third parties after the release of the film (in the Russian box office " Home video”), whose heroes accidentally sent out their adult video friends and relatives. In addition, most recently, Russian hackers from the Anonymous International group announced that they were from the accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Vkontakte of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. However, the current action of cybercriminals raises much more questions.

So, according to the 4chan hacker who published the photo archives, he was offered a sum of six zeros for granting the exclusive right to print and publish the pictures to the TMZ tabloid, but he preferred to simply release them to the public. We are talking about photos of celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Avril Lavigne, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kate Olsen, Rihanna, Victoria Justice, Ariana Garanda, Kirsten Dunst, Hope Solo, Krysten Ritteri and many others who have set their Camera Roll to automatically sync with iCloud . Everything would be fine if celebrities did not practice selfies in the nude and without makeup - they did not need such fame.

As one of the most probable causes Hacking professionals traditionally refer to the human factor as weak passwords, lack of two-factor authentication, simple code words, access to the cloud from a large number of uncontrolled devices, etc., but in this case we are talking about too in large numbers celebrities, whose accounts could have been accessed either as a result of an unprecedented target activity of a group of hackers, or in the event of a vulnerability in the iCloud system as such. Parallels security specialist Anton Dedov notes that it is very difficult to make a cloud service secure, since it must be available to the user from different devices, from anywhere in the world, to store arbitrary information.

Be that as it may, the hackers who committed this action are at great risk, because a few years ago in the United States there was a similar case when an attacker published photos of Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. The result is 10 years in prison. As for the reputation of Apple, it has been seriously damaged in Lately and certainly specialists will make every effort to avoid similar incidents in the future.

A hacker hacked into the stars' iCloud accounts and took possession of their personal information, including explicit photos and videos. As it turned out, many celebrities keep them in their smartphones.

These shots began to appear on the network the night before: the hacker decided to make a business on the stolen pictures and, having shown some of them, offers to show the public more in exchange for bitcoins (digital currency).

The first "surfaced" photos of Jennifer Lawrence. The hacker says he has over 60 "naked selfies" of her.

Lawrence's spokesman said: "This is a gross violation of the right to privacy. We have already contacted the relevant authorities: anyone who publishes stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence will be punished,” notes hollywoodreporter.com.

The hackers also posted online candid photos graphics Kirsten Dunst, Teresa Palmer, fashion models Kate Upton, Bar Refaeli, double Olympic champion soccer player Hope Solo and many other stars.

Among the victims of a cyberattack on Hollywood celebrities turned out future wife Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko - actress Hayden Pannethier.

iCloud accounts are designed so that iPad, iPhone and Mac users can sync calendars, photos, settings and other data on their gadgets. The service has been repeatedly criticized for its unreliability.

Earlier this year, Jennifer Lawrence herself complained about the inconvenience of iCloud in an interview with MTV: “My iCloud keeps telling me to back up, and I’m like, I don’t know how to back up. Do it yourself,” notes Gazeta.Ru.

The first case of such an attack on the stars occurred in 2005, when hackers managed to gain access to the phone of Paris Hilton and download photos from there. Then the attackers managed to gain access to the phone by answering a secret question, as an answer to which socialite choose the name of your dog.

The largest leak of star intimate photos, called The Fappening, did not go unnoticed by fans. Sympathizers of the victims of the leak publish in in social networks own intimate photos tagged with #leakforjlaw.

scandal known as The Fappening or Celebgate. On March 15, 2016, the US Department of Justice published an official statement, according to which 36-year-old Pennsylvania resident Ryan Collins was guilty of mass hacking of Gmail and iCloud accounts of stars (with the subsequent publication of their personal pictures on 4chan).

Let me remind you that in 2014 intimate pictures of top stars, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kirsten Dunst and others, got into the network. Then the hacker managed to gain access to other people's iCloud accounts, most of whose owners were famous personalities.

But it seems that Collins found worthy followers. Today, March 15, 2017, the attackers "celebrated" the anniversary of The Fappening by leaking new personal pictures of two famous actresses- Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried.

In addition, a message appeared on the 4chan imageboard, according to which this leak is just the beginning. Unknown people promised to soon publish personal photos and videos of several dozen more famous actresses. Pictures of some of the stars on this list have already begun to appear on thefappening.so.

It is not yet known exactly how the attackers got intimate photos of the actresses. Let me remind you that in 2014, Collins sent targeted phishing emails to his famous victims and their friends, in which he introduced himself as Google employee or Apple and asked the victims to provide their username and password. Thus, he gained access to 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts. This time there are no details yet. It is only known that the leak was “announced” on Reddit. A user named Alverx warned that Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried would soon make headlines and wrote, "I don't want to break Reddit's rules so no links yet, but some very good drama is coming up in the next couple of days."

In May last year, singer Katy Perry became a victim of a hack. Suddenly, insults towards herself and her relatives began to pour on her Twitter account. In a completely unexpected turn, the message was for Taylor Swift, with whom Katy has a long-standing feud. “Missing you baby,” Perry allegedly wrote. Of course, the fans couldn't believe it and recognized the hack. Luckily, the singer was able to regain control of her account and delete all of the tweets posted by the hackers.

Sony Pictures vs. Angelina Jolie

What could be worse for a star: the theft of personal photos by hackers or the betrayal of colleagues and partners? Angelina Jolie has been in both situations. So, in June 2014, the British website Daily Mail published a video made in 1999. The dealer brought Angie another dose and, along the way, filmed the actress talking on the phone with her father. Jolie, who was using heroin at the time, did not look in the best way. Although Jolie has never denied her drug past, she felt that dragging this old tape out was a cynical invasion of her privacy.

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In the same year, the actress suffered another blow: hackers published emails from film producers with harsh criticism of Angelina Jolie. Due to the irresponsibility of Sony Pictures studio managers, who are accustomed to storing passwords from important accounts in insecure text documents, the correspondence of producers, directors, managers and other Hollywood "big shots" has become available. In correspondence, among other things, the work and personality of Angelina were discussed. So, producer Scott Rudin, absolutely not embarrassed in expressions, called famous actress untalented and spoiled. The messages are about the film Cleopatra, which has been talked about for a long time, but production is still not starting - and now it’s clear why. “I have absolutely no interest in doing a 180 million project to amuse Jolie, because such a film will destroy our careers. I'm not going to suffer because of a minimally gifted and spoiled child, says Rudin. “I will not work with her or anyone she chooses. She is just a star, nothing more, and because of such a project, you should not become a universal laughing stock.

Blac Chyna's Instagram Hack

The Kardashian family is rarely calm: robbery, nervous breakdowns, gender reassignment ... In December, another incident occurred: hackers hacked the Instagram of Blac Chyna's model and posted part of her personal correspondence in the public domain. It turned out that Chyna does not love Rob Kardashian at all, the younger brother of Kim Kardashian, from whom she gave birth to a daughter a couple of months ago. China calls him "lazy" and "fat". Chatting with a friend, Black directly called the relationship with Rob a PR and a way to get the name Kardashian!

In addition, the burglars discovered that Blac Chyna had been texting other men as well.

Rob himself confirmed that what happened was true. All this shocked him: “I loved everything about this woman. I gave everything to her. I didn't know that I was just part of the plan. I believed that she loved me as much as I loved her."

Hacking WhatsApp Ksenia Sobchak

In 2016, correspondence from Ksenia Sobchak's WhatsApp got into the Network. Basically, Ksenia talked with her friends Ulyana Sergeenko, Nika Belotserkovskaya, her ex-fiance Alexander Shusterovich. One of the objects of discussion was Victoria Bonya. In correspondence, secular friends accused Bonya of wearing fakes. I must say that Victoria reacted quite calmly to this event and wrote on Instagram that she does not hold grudges and forgives her offenders. True, then Victoria deleted the post. According to her subscribers, this was due to the fear of harassment by Xenia.

Hacking the phone of Olga Buzova

At the end of 2016, hackers gained access to Olga Buzova's phone. In addition to quite ordinary correspondence, the attackers found and posted materials of a very personal nature on the Internet. Including candid photos and videos that Olga allegedly sent to Dmitry Nagiyev appeared on the Web. However, the actor denied that the scandalous records reached him. Olga's correspondence with her mother was also made public. In a conversation with her daughter, a woman calls for cleanliness and order: “You must understand that you and I are pigs and very messy. But for the sake of a loved one, you can become better - these are such trifles as making the bed, taking out the trash, rinsing the sink after yourself.

The TV presenter herself reacted to the hack with humor and joked about the drain on the air of the show “Dancing”, where she is a judge.

Theft of the century: leaking intimate photos of hundreds of Hollywood stars

August 31, 2014 - this day will be special in the history of the Internet. Candid photos of actresses, singers, TV presenters appeared on the Web, among which were: Jennifer Lawrence, Kaley Cuoco, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande, Kirsten Dunst, Leah Michele, Selena Gomez and about a hundred more celebrities. The main blow came to the star of the "Hunger Games" Jennifer Lawrence. At the disposal of the hackers was not only a huge archive of her very candid photos, but also a series of videos made by Jen at home.

Earlier this year, the hacker, 29-year-old Edward Maerchik from Chicago, was found and sentenced to 9 months in prison. It turned out that iCloud accounts were hacked through account verification: Maerchik sent letters asking to confirm logins and passwords from iCloud and Gmail accounts. The link in this letter led to a phishing site, thanks to which he got access to the personal information of celebrities who indicated personal data.

Unknown hackers put on public display personal photos of actresses Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried. The girls themselves have not yet commented on the plums, but this is far from the first such case. Medialeaks tells how other celebrities have previously commented on plums, blaming photoshop for everything and even finding something funny in what is happening.

“People, these so-called naked pictures of me are FAKE. Let me stop (rumors of this) in the bud.

Ariana Grande also stated that it was photoshop, and joked that the authors of the pictures could find someone prettier. And at the same time advertised her tour.

to every1 going on about my "nudes" & my "m&g prices" neither are real! my lil ass is a lot cuter than that lmao & tour details r comin soon

“To everyone who has seen my “naked pictures” - none of them are real! My tiny ass is way prettier than the one over there. I’m laughing to tears, I’ll publish information about the tour soon.”

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“What a beautiful day it was when my husband and I frolic on the beaches in Mexico City! Seems like we forgot something?