iCloud leaks/Celeb pic leaks *Warning in OP*

LiveIsLife

Whatever about getting to see a whole load of celebrities naked, its fairly worrying that there's been such a large data breach. Goes to show that nothings safe on the internet, even private pictures that had been thought deleted

OK, the original thread was closed due to the amount of links posted. As per the charter, links to pornographic images are not allowed. Apologies for not putting a closing post at the end

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BeerWolf

There is no such thing as 100% safe on the internet... someone will always find a hole to exploit if determined.

smash

hilarious that after the leaks 4chan went and created #leakforjlaw on twitter for girls to show 'solidarity' and publish their own nude pics and a load of people fell for it

IvaBigWun

There's already a thread discussing the fallout here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=92006526#post92006526

fizzypish

Why would you store sensitive material on a piece of hardware that you cannot physically access when ever you want to? I understand that the companies that maintain the banks of memory (cloud) have security systems but there are people out there who live and breath to break these systems.

B.A._Baracus

And this thread will get locked.
Why tho? Like ok, I get it on one hand. Boards.ie wants to cover themselves. But as long as no one posts pictures what's the problem.

Shiraz 4.99

This thread probably won't last pissing time either.
John Charles McQuaid wouldn't have shut this sh1t down quicker than Boards.

Gatling

But most of us seen the pics last night .

Pretty tame stuff been honest

Thread locked til I figure out what's going on!

Bear with us please lads.

Agent Smith

Looks like Seth Mcfarlenen needs to update his song.

KERSPLAT!

OK, the original thread was closed due to the amount of links posted. As per the charter, links to pornographic images are not allowed. Apologies for not putting a closing post at the end. We'll go ahead and open up this one for discussion

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WinnyThePoo

I betcha the mods are allowed post naked pics on there private forum:(

smash

fizzypish wrote: »

Why would you store sensitive material on a piece of hardware that you cannot physically access when ever you want to? I understand that the companies that maintain the banks of memory (cloud) have security systems but there are people out there who live and breath to break these systems.

You don't really understand cloud storage do you? You can access it from anywhere. It's basically just like gmail/hotmail etc, except instead of emails it's documents etc. You can log in from anywhere with your username and password!

Someone hacked a load of celeb accounts, it happens all the time. You just need to have better security and FFS DON'T USE PUBLIC WIFI.

SEPT 23 1989

Never heard of any of these girls

seamus

WinnyThePoo wrote: »

I betcha the mods are allowed post naked pics on there private forum:(

That's all the mods post on their private forum. If you post without a nudie pic, you get demodded instantly.

smash

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Never heard of any of these girls

I bet you'll fap to them anyway...

And go watch a movie or two!

Shiraz 4.99

No wonder that Irish guy in Downton was so sad when his wife died.

holystungun9

seamus wrote: »

That's all the mods post on their private forum. If you post without a nudie pic, you get demodded instantly.

Getting demodded sounds a bit kinky. Me like.

The Purveyor of Truth

I heard one guy actually fapped himself into such a befuddlement, that he somehow ended up taking a piss in his son's bedroom.

kjl

But seriously, the picture of Victoria Justice wearing the Marvel T Shirt showing off her vagina is the hottest thing I have ever seen.

El Guapo!

WinnyThePoo wrote: »

I betcha the mods are allowed post naked pics on there private forum:(

Only of ourselves though.

doubledown

kjl wrote: »

But seriously, the picture of Victoria Justice wearing the Marvel T Shirt showing off her vagina is the hottest thing I have ever seen.

Yeah, it's a shame that her photos are the fake ones -

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/victoria-justice-nude-photo-leak-let-me-nip-this-in-the-bud-right-now-9703164.html

The Lawrence / Upton / Dunst shots and most of the others are the real deal though.

fizzypish

smash wrote: »

You don't really understand cloud storage do you? You can access it from anywhere. It's basically just like gmail/hotmail etc, except instead of emails it's documents etc. You can log in from anywhere with your username and password!

Someone hacked a load of celeb accounts, it happens all the time. You just need to have better security and FFS DON'T USE PUBLIC WIFI.

I understand it well enough. What I'm saying is that you cannot access the physical hardware. You don't know what backup systems they have in place. You upload 1 file and the system could automatically archive a copy somewhere. The point is you just don't know and once its out, its out. What does the fine print on cloud data storage read? Bad/different example: didn't bebo sell (or try to) off people's user info years ago. I bet when people uploaded photo's when it was popular they didn't realize there was a fine print. Anyway, personally I believe if the info is that sensitive you should not store it on any device that you cannot physically pick up.

Vandango

fizzypish wrote: »

Why would you store sensitive material on a piece of hardware that you cannot physically access when ever you want to? I understand that the companies that maintain the banks of memory (cloud) have security systems but there are people out there who live and breath to break these systems.

The amount of people stupid enough to put their faith in this cloud BS is worrying. If you want to back up sensitive date, put it on an encrypted HD. Not some hackable cloud joke.

Duggy747

This is my personal favourite of the leaks.

smash

doubledown wrote: »

Yeah, it's a shame that her photos are the fake ones

Except they're real. She just said they were fake and they've been proven to be her.

smash

fizzypish wrote: »

I understand it well enough. What I'm saying is that you cannot access the physical hardware. You don't know what backup systems they have in place. You upload 1 file and the system could automatically archive a copy somewhere.

Would you recommend saving to physical drives that when stolen can never be recovered?

Sleepy

It's a little hard to take her "They're fake" seriously when the others all appear to be real... I'm sure some neck-beard will be along shortly to analyze the pixelation of the image and "verify" it's authenticity :rolleyes:

Am I right in guessing this is going to boil down to people not knowing about Apples backup features and leaving default passwords set on their accounts? i.e. a social media version of the voicemail "hacking"...

Menas

The only way to avoid pics like these getting in to the public domain is not to take them in the first place.

I wonder if this is linked to what Snowden said about the NSA having access to lot of personal celeb pictures. The person who published the pics said he is not a hacker, but a collector.

The pics are all over the internet now, mirrored and squirrelled away in every dark recess of the web. I really do feel sorry for those whose pics have been published so far, and those that will get published later.
Lots of lawyers will earn a bucket from this. PR men will be losing hair over this...and Apple will be sh1ting themselves.

LiveIsLife

Sleepy wrote: »

It's a little hard to take her "They're fake" seriously when the others all appear to be real... I'm sure some neck-beard will be along shortly to analyze the pixelation of the image and "verify" it's authenticity :rolleyes:

Am I right in guessing this is going to boil down to people not knowing about Apples backup features and leaving default passwords set on their accounts? i.e. a social media version of the voicemail "hacking"...

Somebody already has, they analysed actual pictures she posted before and compared the background and clothes and what not, even down to the lightswitch

smash

Sleepy wrote: »

Am I right in guessing this is going to boil down to people not knowing about Apples backup features and leaving default passwords set on their accounts? i.e. a social media version of the voicemail "hacking"...

It's a little more than that. iCloud uses your Apple ID and password. There is no default password. I'm guessing it's as a result of using public WIFI that tracks and records passwords.

Menas

Sleepy wrote: »

It's a little hard to take her "They're fake" seriously when the others all appear to be real... I'm sure some neck-beard will be along shortly to analyze the pixelation of the image and "verify" it's authenticity :rolleyes:

Am I right in guessing this is going to boil down to people not knowing about Apples backup features and leaving default passwords set on their accounts? i.e. a social media version of the voicemail "hacking"...

Neckbeard here!

Her pics are real. There is a comparison image doing the rounds. I wont link here for obvious reasons but there is a colored robe in the background that also appears in one of her self published twitter pics. Color of walls the same and frame of door the same.

Sleepy

I'm sure Apple are sufficiently protected by their user agreements etc. to be safe from legal action...

That said, a hundred pissed off A listers can probably do a hell of a lot of damage to a brand if they choose to.

Wibbs

If it is apple's icloud watch the share price drop like a stone. It may not be. As one fella pointed out a lot of the pics are taken with android phones. Though the pics may have been stored on another's phone and an apple one(boyfriend maybe). Personally I'd be looking at a phone company. Apparently there are more to come, so whoever the "hacker" was he had some level of access to whatever database he attacked.

It's one reason I back up my stuff to local drives and do DVD backups of my important stuff.

Though call me old fashioned/paranoid, one real easy way of not getting your private pics online is maybe stop taking nekkid pics of yourself and sending them to other people?

I love how reddit has called this The Fappening.

Menas

You can be damned sure that a lot of celebs and plebs are logged on to icloud right now deleting lots of content, possibly including their accounts. Big brand damage all right.

fizzypish

smash wrote: »

Would you recommend saving to physical drives that when stolen can never be recovered?

You can encrypt a drive but your point is valid. The info is gone.
I suppose the user has to weigh up the need to be able to recover the info in the event it is lost versus losing a level of control over their data. In general, just because a company has a big name, that doesn't mean I have faith in them. Still angry over vista.....

Oafley Jones

Wibbs wrote: »

If it is apple's icloud watch the share price drop like a stone. It may not be. As one fella pointed out a lot of the pics are taken with android phones. Though the pics may have been stored on another's phone and an apple one(boyfriend maybe). Personally I'd be looking at a phone company. Apparently there are more to come, so whoever the "hacker" was he had some level of access to whatever database he attacked.

It's one reason I back up my stuff to local drives and do DVD backups of my important stuff.

Though call me old fashioned/paranoid, one real easy way of not getting your private pics online is maybe stop taking nekkid pics of yourself and sending them to other people?

I love how reddit has called this The Fappening.

Looks almost certainly to be icloud with a brute force attack and a vulnerability in find my iPhone. This won't have any effect on the share price. Might make their iPhone 6/ios8 reveal a little awkward with their new partnership with credit card companies.

Canis Lupus

I'm holding out hope for some Oprah Winfrey pics.

Putin

Wibbs wrote: »

It's one reason I back up my stuff to local drives and do DVD backups of my important stuff.

Me too, it's the only sensible way to do it.

Sleepy

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Neckbeard here!

Her pics are real. There is a comparison image doing the rounds. I wont link here for obvious reasons but there is a colored robe in the background that also appears in one of her self published twitter pics. Color of walls the same and frame of door the same.

I have to say, I've no more interest in her pics than those of any other pretty girl as I'd no idea who she was until this happened. Actually had to google her to see who she was and all I'd have seen her in was a bit part as "generic pretty girl" in The First Time.

Showing my age but it'd be the Kirsten Dunst ones that would float my boat... but the manner in which these have been released is pretty creepy. Maybe there'll be a few of them that'll do Playboy shoots out of a "**** it, may as well cash in on it" reaction

Snapchat was my instant thought of a source for these. Call me old fashioned but while I've an interest in photography and have taken similar photos in the past, I'd never have stored them unencrypted, in a cloud location or even failed to wipe the SD card properly...

ScumLord

Trigger Happy wrote: »

The only way to avoid pics like these getting in to the public domain is not to take them in the first place.

Nonsense, I have an even better way of protecting your pictures from getting out. Just get really fat and ugly. I have hundreds of nudie pics online and no one goes next nor near them.

smash

Until details are released there's no point in people blaming iCloud. They could be from Dropbox, google drive etc too. I'll still bet they're from multiple sources and it's plain old password hacks.

Wibbs

Trigger Happy wrote: »

You can be damned sure that a lot of celebs and plebs are logged on to icloud right now deleting lots of content, possibly including their accounts. Big brand damage all right.

True, though I'd imagine at least some of these kinda pics were meant for lovers and sent to their phones, so they're gonna have to delete such material from both their own and partners phones and laptops, pads, desktops. Chances are all their devices are backing up to the cloud.

Karl Stein

Nude pic.

who the fug

ScumLord wrote: »

Nonsense, I have an even better way of protecting your pictures from getting out. Just get really fat and ugly. I have hundreds of nudie pics online and no one goes next nor near them.

Have you check out the fetish sites , the ones of you with baby oil and feathers are real earners and what you did with the jalapeno poppers, was amazing

grizzly

mods sorry if this isn't allowed - but I was sent this topless pic of Emma Watson.

(not my joke)

humanji

grizzly wrote: »

mods sorry if this isn't allowed - but I was sent this topless pic of Emma Watson.

(not my joke)

I'm annoyed at myself for laughing at that.

Gatling

Can't believe there is actually a naked photo/s/ videos of one or both of the Olsen Twins out there some where

ScumLord

who the fug wrote: »

and what you did with the jalapeno poppers, was amazing

That was a picture of a chicken casserole, not a picture of me you bastard.

Menas

Kim Kardasian has released a statement saying that pictures released showing her wearing clothes are clearly fake and not her.

anncoates

You must be out of your mind to store those things online. Especially well known people.