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Sep 2, 2014 · A number of celebrities were targeted this week in an attack that exposed nude photos-- some said to be real, others fake -- stored in Apple iCloud accounts. Here's what we know and what it...
Sep 1, 2014 · 2 min read. Apple said Monday it is "actively investigating" whether a security breach at its iCloud service was responsible for the leak of several private, nude images of celebrities,...
The leak was dubbed " The Fappening " or " Celebgate " by the public. The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple 's cloud services suite iCloud, [1] [2] or a security issue in the iCloud API which allowed them to make unlimited attempts at guessing victims' passwords.
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- Pleaded guilty
Sep 1, 2014 · How the pictures were obtained remains unconfirmed, but anonymous 4chan users claimed that they were drawn from celebrities' iCloud accounts.
- Madeline Grant
Aug 31, 2014 · The pictures' release was originally thought to be due to an Apple iCloud leak that allowed celebrities' phones to be hacked, and were posted on 4chan in an attempt to earn bitcoins. The hacker on 4chan is also claiming to have explicit videos of Lawrence, and claims to have over 60 nude selfies of the Oscar-winning actress.
- Buzzfeed News Reporter
Mar 16, 2016 · It's thought some iCloud accounts were breached during the first leak, but other systems and devices were linked to the second set of images too. The US attorney's office says Collins used a...
Oct 23, 2020 · The man behind the leaked photos hacked into celebrities’ iCloud accounts by sending phishing emails to the affected individuals’ Gmail accounts. It is reported that the hacker requested the victims to provide their usernames and passwords using emails that imitated the look and feel of an official email from Google or Apple.
