Read the article. But you'd rather believe the FUD, in your preferential bias. The photos did not get out because iCloud was cracked or hacked, VanDeKoik, what few accounts that got compromised were breeched because the users allowed themselves to be phished. Researchers have well established how the bad guys got these pictures. . . and one guy went undercover into the group that did it. Where it became apparent they were all upset that one guy broke their code and went "outside" of their trading circles to try and sell images from his collection. They've been getting into celebrity accounts for years. . . by "social engineering." That's why the photographs included long ago deleted pictures, pictures from Windows PC webcams, and photos taken with Android phones. They weren't all from iCloud. Were some massaged from accounts in Apple's iCloud, you bet, but others came from Google, emails, compromised personal computers, wherever these perverts could steal them.
You WANT it to be from Apple's iCloud because that would tie into your extreme case of anti-Apple derangement. That's known as confirmational bias. . . and you do it all the time on Apple threads.
“Were some massaged from accounts in Apple’s iCloud”
“what few accounts that got compromised were breeched because the users allowed themselves to be phished”
But of course it has nothing to do with iCloud. Apple said so, and some guys rushed in to give a demo of wha they think might have happened, and the church of the Jobs says amen.
It’s those stupid people “holding it wrong”.
“You WANT it to be from Apple’s iCloud because that would tie into your extreme case of anti-Apple derangement. That’s known as confirmational bias. . . and you do it all the time on Apple threads.”
LOL!
I dont care where it was from, but I can bet that you were clutching your iPhone waiting for someone to give some tortured cover for Apple so you can rush in and say “see, see, all is well. Apple is blameless”. Like you do whenever that company lands in hot water.
Read, The Art of Deception, by noted hacker Kevin Mitnik if you want to understand how powerful social engineering is.
The problem is that the more you know about a person, the easier it is to hack them. In many ways celebrities are like close friends, you know or can learn almost everything about them. You know their first pet, where they went to school, their first job, mother’s maiden name. It’s a piece of cake if you have no morals or ethical standards.