Is there really a new set of nude celebrity photo leaked? Reports had it that the second batch of photo dump, which included Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens and US soccer star Hope Solo, appeared briefly on 4chan and Reddit, before being removed.
BuzzFeed said that personal videos and photos belonging to actresses Aubrey Plaza, Mary-Kate Olsen, Hayden Panettiere and Leelee Sobieski were also posted, in addition to previously unseen pictures of Jennifer Lawrence.
It will be recalled that hackers first released a trove of nude starlets' photos on 1 September 2014, after snatching them from Apple's iCloud in what the tech giant has called a "targeted attack."
The company has denied its cloud storage system was breached, suggesting that the celebrities had their accounts hacked by using easy-to-guess passwords, or by giving up their personal data to cybercriminals posing as Apple, a technique known as "phishing."
Security experts revealed that once the hacker discovers the iCloud account of a celebrity, it's trivially easy to access their online photo backup through Apple's Photo Stream utility and iCloud photo backups.
In addition to Lawrence, celebrities whose pictures were allegedly stolen and posted online in early September included model Kate Upton, singer Avril Lavigne and actress Gabrielle Union.
BuzzFeed said that personal videos and photos belonging to actresses Aubrey Plaza, Mary-Kate Olsen, Hayden Panettiere and Leelee Sobieski were also posted, in addition to previously unseen pictures of Jennifer Lawrence.
It will be recalled that hackers first released a trove of nude starlets' photos on 1 September 2014, after snatching them from Apple's iCloud in what the tech giant has called a "targeted attack."
The company has denied its cloud storage system was breached, suggesting that the celebrities had their accounts hacked by using easy-to-guess passwords, or by giving up their personal data to cybercriminals posing as Apple, a technique known as "phishing."
Security experts revealed that once the hacker discovers the iCloud account of a celebrity, it's trivially easy to access their online photo backup through Apple's Photo Stream utility and iCloud photo backups.
In addition to Lawrence, celebrities whose pictures were allegedly stolen and posted online in early September included model Kate Upton, singer Avril Lavigne and actress Gabrielle Union.
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