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Jul 5, 2016 · Edward Majerczyk — a hacker who used phishing scams to gain access to celebrities' iCloud accounts — has pleaded guilty, and will face up to five years in federal prison. Majerczyk was able to access over 300 Gmail and iCloud accounts, with at least 30 accounts belonging to celebrities.
Sep 1, 2014 · A slew of private photos belonging to celebrities were leaked on the internet yesterday, supposedly due to Apple's iCloud Photo Stream feature being exploited by hackers. The nude photos of the...
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,...
Aug 24, 2021 · Malcolm Owen | Aug 24, 2021. 15. Facebook. x.com. Reddit. A man in Los Angeles County stole more than 620,000 photographs and videos from thousands of iCloud accounts with the intent to steal...
Mar 16, 2016 · Cloud Computing. Arrest Made in the 2014 iCloud Celebrity Photo Hack. The U.S. government says a man from Pennsylvania used 'phishing' emails to retrieve passwords to the online accounts of...
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, or a security issue in the iCloud API which allowed them to make unlimited attempts at guessing victims' passwords.
