

Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it.Īt the time of writing, Reddit was clamping down on people naming the alleged leakers, and picture hosting site Imgur is pulling any uploads of the images as best it can, 4chan also displayed rare twitchiness, and pulled the original thread.

This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. But, it's possible that only one address is needed, allowing to search inboxes for those of others in a domino effect. If this was the flaw used, the hackers would have needed email addresses of celebrities. It's certainly not the first intrusion issue with the service we've seen. The implication is that this could give access to AppleIDs, and from there any number of avenues to compromise accounts become significantly more viable. an attack can continue using different passwords until the right one if found). Just a day before the images leaked, the developers of ibrute announced a bug in the Find My iPhone service means it doesn't employ bruteforce protection (i.e. The potential exploit relates to a project on the code hosting site Github called, imaginatively, ibrute. As yet though, no one has been able to confirm how the images actually leaked, but some keen programmers think they may have spotted at least one (now fixed) route into accounts. Initial reports suggested that hackers targeted the iCloud accounts of the high-profile victims, and held eager would-be-viewers to ransom on notorious bulletin-board 4chan, demanding Bitcoin in exchange for a peek of the images ( reportedly earning a princely $95 for their troubles). We don't need to rake over the gory details here, but in the last 12 hours, the internet has lost its "you know what" over some leaked celebrity photos.
