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Title: iCloud flaw may have allowed nude celebrity photos to leak Post by: HCK on September 02, 2014, 09:00:21 am iCloud flaw may have allowed nude celebrity photos to leak
<article> <section class="page"> <p> A funny thing happened on the Internet Sunday as a cache of nude photos of Kate Upton, Jennifer Lawrence, and other big-name stars made their way onto 4chan, as BuzzFeed notes (http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/jennifer-lawrence-ariana-grande-picture-leak). Reports indicate that this leak may have been the result of a hacker (or hackers) taking advantage of a flaw in Apple’s iCloud service.</p><p> According to TheNextWeb (http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/09/01/this-could-be-the-apple-icloud-flaw-that-led-to-celebrity-photos-being-leaked/), a hacker may have used a Python script posted to GitHub to hack their way into celebrities’ iCloud accounts. The script, TheNextWeb reports, uses a flaw in Find My iPhone to make it easier to crack a password using “brute force” means where hackers use a piece of software to repeatedly guess a password.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2600823/icloud-flaw-may-have-allowed-nude-celebrity-photos-to-leak.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: iCloud flaw may have allowed nude celebrity photos to leak (http://www.macworld.com/article/2600823/icloud-flaw-may-have-allowed-nude-celebrity-photos-to-leak.html#tk.rss_all) |