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Nude Photos Leak In Massive iCloud Hack (Please delete your iCloud backups for now)
Small Business Yahoo ^ | Sept 1, 2014 | Caroline Moss

Posted on 08/31/2014 5:34:30 PM PDT by ConservativeMind

Full Title: Nude Photos Of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande Leak In Massive iCloud Hack

Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, and Kate Upton were among a handful of celebrities whose nude photos were leaked late Sunday afternoon following what appears to be a large-scale hack.

The photos first appeared on a 4Chan thread (very NSFW). So far, only Lawrence’s publicist Bryna Rifkin has confirmed, in an official statement to Buzzfeed, that the photos were of her client...

...The leaked photos were apparently obtained via a massive hack of Apple’s iCloud. They were then posted on 4chan by users offering more explicit material in exchange for bitcoin payments.

(Excerpt) Read more at smallbusiness.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apple; hackers; icloud; internet; maccult; privacyrights; sexting
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To: Linda Frances

ICloud backs up more than most people think. In their own words:

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12519?viewlocale=en_US


41 posted on 08/31/2014 6:01:50 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: ConservativeMind
Please consider immediately deleting all iCloud backups.

Hahahahahahahaaaaa! By now, the patch is probably complete, and if anything was stolen, it is already in play!


42 posted on 08/31/2014 6:02:47 PM PDT by WVKayaker (Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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To: maggief
Pumpkin got back.
43 posted on 08/31/2014 6:05:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: Linda Frances; Swordmaker

Unless iCloud somehow holds your only backup (and I don’t think this is normally the case), it will minimally affect you.

This tutorial to optimize iCloud for your iPhone will give you an idea of what’s there.

http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/31/ios-7-how-to-manage-your-icloud-account-storage-space/

I don’t know if turning these off will immediately delete your data on iCloud, sadly. Also, I don’t know if any credit card information in Passbook is in plaintext in iCloud.

Pinging Swordmaker for more...


44 posted on 08/31/2014 6:05:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: maggief

LMAO!


45 posted on 08/31/2014 6:05:49 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: CrazyIvan

Read it again Ivan. I didn’t say she wasn’t. I asked if she was. I have no idea who any of them are. So is she worth the effort to google? I assume by your comment that she’s a looker.


46 posted on 08/31/2014 6:06:14 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: Linda Frances

> Thanks. If you turn off iCloud how will that affect normal use? Thanks!

It just won’t back it up but you can buy software that will backup your iPhone to your computer pretty inexpensively


47 posted on 08/31/2014 6:06:15 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: maggief

Oh no...pumpkin crack...


48 posted on 08/31/2014 6:06:41 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I don’t use Apple, and don’t save anything to cloud storage.


49 posted on 08/31/2014 6:07:20 PM PDT by wastedyears (Aldnoah.Zero - Best new anime of 2014.)
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To: ConservativeMind

This might explain some other seen things occurring across the net also.


50 posted on 08/31/2014 6:09:26 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: glorgau
Only use cloud backup systems that use Pre-Internet Encryption (PIE)

And only deal with firms that keep their PIE-holes closed ....

51 posted on 08/31/2014 6:11:12 PM PDT by mikrofon (IT "Humour")
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To: jsanders2001

I never used any form or alternative of icloud. I always used the external hard drives or firewire for backup. I never felt comfortable with my information somehow online, no matter how secure.


52 posted on 08/31/2014 6:11:27 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: ConservativeMind

Lol....this was easily predictable.


53 posted on 08/31/2014 6:12:49 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: GeronL

Do you think perhaps Shadow should be pinged?


54 posted on 08/31/2014 6:12:52 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: ASA Vet

yes, except for Grande- i think she’s like 16YO...


55 posted on 08/31/2014 6:12:52 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

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56 posted on 08/31/2014 6:16:16 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: GeronL

Ace time?


57 posted on 08/31/2014 6:18:00 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: maggief

Nicki Minaj’s account got hacked too?


58 posted on 08/31/2014 6:18:42 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: ASA Vet

“Are they worth googling?”

Define “googling”. I might have done it when it was named something else.


60 posted on 08/31/2014 6:20:43 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (Meine antwort ist nein. Ende der Debatte.)
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