These pics are getting yanked off the web as fast as they're getting posted. And then they're getting reposted and pulled again. The Reddit servers are overloaded. Other naked celeb sites are down. Hollywood is threatening anyone who circulates them with legal action. What action can be taken, aside from against the person who hacked the accounts is uncertain. All these celebs are adults.
This news is a lot bigger than Jennifer Lawrence's boobs. It shatters Apple's claim that iCloud was secure and that's what really makes this story newsworthy.
Did Lois Lerner have any communication files on the iCloud?
It turns out that the guy who claimed he got them from Apple's iCloud before posting them to 4Chan.org was lying. He now claims he's not a hacker and doesn't know where they came from. . . and, according to Business Insider Editor James Cook, many of the photos show metadata from Android phones and webcams from Windows PCs, not Apple devices.
Reddit users on Monday claimed to have learned the identity of the leaker and circulated these images of Bryan Hamade, a 27-year-old from Georgia. Hamade vehemently denied being the leaker in an interview with BuzzFeed.
I am not behind this. It was so stupid I saw a lot of people posting the actual leaks and bitcoin addresses and Ive read a lot about bitcoin and how theyre are valuable and I thought, oh cool Ill get free bitcoins, Hamade told BuzzFeed. I am just an idiot who tried to pull one over on 4chan and lost big time and stupidly left this identifying information. They took my proof and back traced it it isnt remotely true. I am not a hacker. I have no idea how the hell someone could hack into all those accounts, he said.Source Buzzfeed