Jennifer Lawrence and Other Celebs Hacked as Nude Images Circulate on the Web

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Can we talk about the technological implications of this event? I feel they are going to be huge. Most are blaming iCloud (a week before the iphone6 release btw) but it seems unlikely that those came all from the same cloud considering that some selfies appear to have been taken with android phones and some are reported to be years old. Could this be a NSA gone rogue?

There's another story listed in HN "new" linking to this (though it appears to be falling off the front page of "new"):

https://github.com/hackappcom/ibrute

Possibly related? Seems possible hackers are brute forcing Apple ID passwords for known celeb emails to get to their photo stream using this assuming:

#1) the source really is iCloud (which I've heard people say though I don't know where that's coming from) and

#2) this ibrute thing really works (I don't have an Apple ID to test it against nor any interest in hacking accounts, so I have no idea if that's legit).

If #1 and #2 are legit and this is the source, then Apple is going to have a lot of egg on their face because not only would this be a horrible security oversight but the public impact of it due to celeb nudie involvement would be much bigger than your average nebulous security-leak notification.

I'm not certain if the NSA is involved, but from a brand perspective it's interesting that Jennifer Lawrence is the headliner.

Some forums have mentioned that there might be a group of people trading stolen images over the course of several years.

Why on earth would something like this have to involve the NSA? Celebrity cellphones/voice mail/email/instant messaging/whatever have been hacked in the past by 'regular' jerks, no need to involve the authorities in these.

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