Nude pics of Jennifer revealed
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 01-09-2014
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A huge numbers of accounts were reportedly compromised and this was followed by leaks of nude photos of several celebrities, including Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence.
Lawrence's agent called the leak 'a flagrant violation of privacy' and said the authorities had been contacted, with a view to prosecuting 'anyone who posts the stolen photos'
Cyber expert Edd Hardy, Head of Security Assessment at CNS Hut 3, told The Telegraph that whoever hacked the photos probably did so by accessing the cloud server on which they were stored.
'Anything you do on your phone, if you've got it set up that way, is uploaded to the cloud and then your other devices pull the data down, which is great,' he said.
'But it means your stuff is effectively sitting on a server in the cloud, so your data is on somebody else's computer.