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1. A bitcoin-induced tragedy
On August 31, a user of the sticker website 4chan claimed to have private photos of many celebrities and celebrities, and asked netizens to exchange them with bitcoins, and no one cared. So the user began to anonymously post a large number of celebrity nude photos on 4chan and social news site reddit, resulting in the worst celebrity privacy hacking in Hollywood history.
2. Hollywood's 101 Victims
The hacking techniques obtained nude photos from 101 celebrities are rumored to include: singerSay Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Leah Michelle, Selena Gomez, Arianna Grande, Hilary Duff; supermodel Kate Upton, Johnny Depp's model fiancée Amber Hield; Hollywood actress Christen Dunster, Kelly Coco, Kristen Reit, Victoria Justi, Emily Browning, Kate Bosworth, Jenny McCarthy, Mary Elizabeth Winsstead; hollywood star Kim Kardashian, London Olympics "unhappy sister" Maggiera Marloni and so on.
But the biggest impact is hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence, who has been exposed for 60 nude photos, from half-naked selfies in the dressing room to bathroom photos, and even some people have promoted her indecent videos.
3. Yard farmers who want to get rich by sticking pictures
Earlier on September 2, the 26-year-old software engineer who leaked the actress's private photos was exposed, his real name is Brian Hamad, now 26, from Lawrenceville, Georgia. Hamad admitted to the U.S. media that he sent the photos to make money, but denied that he was a hacker who stole the photos through the iCloud vulnerability. Earlier, he said in a 4chan post that "I don't want the FBI to come to the door, and you don't want to know how I got the film."
4. FBI Dark Batch Apple Incompetent
After the photos were exposed in large quantities, the police in los Angeles, the hardest hit area, were indifferent, and the FBI actively intervened, believing that the incident was suspected of computer intrusion and illegal leakage of personal privacy. FBI spokesman Emile suggested that electronic devices should have more secure password protection systems.
In response to the rumors that the apple device iculd cloud disk of the actresses in this incident was hacked, Apple has announced that it has begun to investigate whether its photo stream and cloud system accounts have been hacked.
According to the US technology blog site the next web report, the nude photos leak may be that hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in Apple's "Find My iPhone" to access celebrities' iCloud accounts by brute-force passwords. Apple said it has fixed the vulnerability, allowing only limited password guessing for iculd cloud system accounts.
5. The silence and counterattack of the actresses
Although most of the stars remained silent, several actresses who were deeply involved in it responded for the first time.
A spokesperson for Jennifer Lawrence confirmed that the photos circulating online were indeed Lawrence's, and that they had contacted police and vowed to take legal action against "blatant invasions of privacy."
Lawrence himself tweeted: "It's weird that someone goes to great lengths to deprive others of their privacy." ”
Mary Wensstead also expressed her displeasure on Twitter: "To those who look at intimate photos that my husband and I took at home a few years ago, I hope you guys feel good." "I deleted these photos a long time ago, and you can imagine how hard it took the hackers to get them." ”
Instead, Christen Dunst posted "thanks" to icloud on Twitter, and cleverly attached "a pizza" and "a piece of shit" emoji, indirectly acknowledging the authenticity of nude photos and ridiculing the security-worrisome iCloud as a "piece of shit".
Upton's lawyers called the dissemination of personal photos of celebrities outrageous.
Like actresses Victoria Justi and Ariana Grande, they deny the authenticity of nude photos, and both of them have called the police.
6. Lessons from déjà vu
In fact, this is not the first time that a Hollywood celebrity has had a private account hacked. In September 2011, actress Scarlett Johansson claimed that private information from her phone was being spread online. At that time, more than 50 actresses, including Jessica Alba, Selena Gomez and Mira Kunis, were killed. The FBI then captured the hacker Christopher Chanie, who was eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The Impact of Hollywood's 2.0 nude photos scandal is obviously even greater. Female celebrities, Apple, the FBI and hackers all seem to have to wrestle in this drama.