Did they change the users’ passwords? I thought they were pilfering content.
If they accessed the accounts for an extended period of time (once an evesdropper knows someone is creating nude content, they know they may get more if they keep their mouth closed and just wait) they didn’t change a password.
I thought the news of the hacked accounts was unknown to the victims until the photos were leaked. Changing the password would lock the celebs out of their own access. They’d call in and get the situation changed ASAP.
For the accounts the breached by using the security questions, they had to change the users' passwords to get into the account to pilfer the content. Without changing the password, they could not get in.
They still would not know the password because the system doesn't know the original password to reveal it to anyone. It merely gives someone who "proves" they are the owner by answering the security questions the opportunity to change the original password to something else. There is no way there can be two passwords simultaneously. Ergo, the original owner is locked out.
The celebrity who had her password hacked would then use the same method to get back in and change it to some thing else (Apple does not allow an already used password to be re-used), locking out the bad guy. . . who can then rinse, and repeat so long as the owner doesn't change the security questions to something NOT in her fan biography.