Jennifer Lawrence deserves to have her privacy protected.
Donald Sterling's privacy deserves to be violated and broadcast repeatedly.
Jennifer Lawrence deserves to have her privacy protected.
Donald Sterling's privacy deserves to be violated and broadcast repeatedly.
From what I’ve read on the subject, this seems to be a combination of two things:
1) For whatever reason, people take these “selfies” on their devices, possibly without the realization that these devices are automatically backed up to a cloud service, and therefore those photos/videos have been uploaded.
2) A lot of poor password practices out there. Full details haven’t been released, but it looks like a brute force password attack targeting the most commonly-used passwords.
Doesn’t sound like a systematic flaw to me, but rather poor judgement - on multiple levels - on the part of the people who got “hacked”.
Not that I’m trying to “blame the victim” here, the people who accessed the accounts and disseminated the pictures are scum, but even though the guy who robs your house is guilty as sin, you’re still due for criticism if you didn’t lock your doors.
What’s missing is that hackers who can hack one account can most likely hack millions. Apple has this diversion going on having everyone concentrate on celebrity accounts when what people should be asking is did someone get into their account.
If you are dumb enough to think the cloud can ever really be secure, we can’t help you.
Anyone who thought the “cloud” was secure is a moron. I never put anything private there. Private files (whether taxes or personal pictures) belong on a thumb drive, not even on your own hard drive (or a former bf/gf’s drive), and certainly not in the cloud.