That's a Web site for tech news and information.ĭmitri Alperovitch, to you first. And Sean Gallagher, he is the Internet technology editor at Ars Technica. As you will, around 100 women celebrities (including Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice and Kate Upton) have had naked and explicit pictures seemingly hacked from their iCloud. He's co- founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike. So, for more on all this, we turn to Dmitri Alperovitch. Instead - quote - 'Celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions.' iPhone photo-sharing app Instagram sent user passwords over the air in plain text, giving hackers potentially unfettered access to user photos. Today, Apple said the attacks were not from a general breach of its cloud or phone systems.
It's not clear who hacked the photos of the celebrities or who posted them. The latest Internet data breach, this time of intimate celebrity photos, is setting off concerns once again, now involving popular online storage systems known as the cloud.Ī cache of nude photos, including of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and others, were posted to online bulletin boards over the weekend.
