Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Ariana Grande are among the high-profile celebrities who apparently fell victim to a massive alleged iCloud hack late Sunday night, when someone exposed collections of nude photos that they had purportedly saved on their Apple devices. What iPhone owners might not realize is that they may have already told Apple to back up all of your photos on its iCloud servers. It's easy enough to enable the "My Photo Stream" feature — then forget that it's running in the background, uploading every picture you take.
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Celebrity Leaked Nude Photos Videos
On August 31st, , Apple should have been getting ready for its biggest week of the year. A new iPhone was set to be announced the next week and all rumors pointed to the introduction of the much-anticipated iWatch. Instead, Apple was dealing with the fallout of a massive celebrity photo hack that involved around pictures of mostly nude female celebrities being released to the public. We hear about major systems being "hacked" several times a year, with companies ranging from Sony to Target to T-Mobile being the victims of a massive hack. And, of course, millions of customers being the true victims. In these cases, hackers generally either break into the systems remotely, use some type of hardware device at the actual store to steal information or have someone within the corporation provide the details needed to hack into the system. The "iCloud Hack" didn't fall into any of these categories. In fact, iCloud wasn't hacked.
Is Photo Stream uploading all your photos to iCloud?
Once you have access to their Apple ID, you can access recent photos and back-ups if they have these features enabled. Here are a few of the 21 security questions you can choose:. That got me past the first two steps on the password reset site. So now I just need to know two of the following: the name of the first album he owned, the name of his favourite teacher, or his least favourite job. I used this to get a list of teachers from this high school from a teacher rating site. This is about as far as I got. After less than a dozen attempts at guessing, I was locked out of his account for eight hours.
With the rise of flash storage in Apple laptops, users have a problem: what happens if you have a GB drive, but a GB photo library? What happens if your account gets hacked, you get locked, out, etc.? I love this 4 TB option from Amazon.