court has charged a man for stealing nude photos from celebrities in a mass hacking of their Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts in 2014, BBC reports.Īlthough the celebrities were not named, the dates and details coincide with the infamous event, informally called "celebgate" or "the fappening," which resulted in a massive leak of nude photos from the private storage accounts of actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kaley Cuoco and others in summer 2014.
Honan said a hacker wiped his devices and gained access to his Gmail and Twitter accounts after an Apple technician fell victim to social engineering, a technique of manipulating people instead of computers to perform a task or divulge information.A U.S.
In 2012, former Gizmodo reporter Mat Honan blamed an AppleCare technician for allowing his personal e-mail and Twitter accounts to be hacked. This isn't the first time Apple's online service has been linked to a hacking. However, some of the photos appear to have come from different devices and may have been accumulated over a long period of time. The code-hosting site reported that Apple had repaired the vulnerability. The images were said to have been taken from the iCloud accounts of celebrities such as Lawrence, model Kate Upton, and recording artist Ariana Grande, and have since spread across the Internet on social media.Ī vulnerability in the online storage service's "Find My iPhone" feature could allow a brute force attack in which multiple, rapid-fire attempts are made to correctly guess an account's password, according to Github.
CNET has contacted Apple for comment and will update this report when we learn more.Ī large cache of risque images - some said to be real, others fake - first appeared Sunday on the image-based bulletin board 4chan. "We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating this report," Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris told Recode.
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