Hacker Threatens To Leak More Intimate Celebrity Images As FBI Closes In

[big_dog]

Source: The UK Daily Mirror Sep 02, 2014 17:33

The hacker responsible for the ‘world’s biggest celebrity scandal’ has threatened to reveal more intimate pictures after he was forced to go on the run from FBI agents. The architect of Sunday’s leak - referred to as the ‘Original Guy’ - said he had fled his hideout fearing the net was closing in on him as the international manhunt got underway.
Just hours before leaving his hideout on Monday night the fugitive said he would reveal more of the stolen images and videos in return for online bitcoin donations from those willing to pay to see. Original Guy also revealed the conspiracy was “the result of several months of long and hard work” involving more than just one hacker. In a thinly veiled dig at the authorities he then thanked his ‘supporters’ for sharing the images on websites before they were then re-posted on Internet
An FBI source said: “Whenever anyone steals information from another computer or device there is a trail left behind. “Agents have a long and proven record of bringing those responsible to justice and they are confident they will get their man or woman. “It is a disgraceful breach of privacy, the likes of which we have never seen before.“It is a game of cat and mouse now - only the FBI has very big claws.” Despite a federal investigation the agency remains powerless to stop the continued spread of photos.

As agents began poring over computer records a new wave of explicit photos, believed to have been taken from their Apple iCloud accounts, were leaked online. They came amid claims the graphic images may have been passed around an online hacking club for months before being made available to the general public. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller told the Mirror it was “aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals, and is addressing the matter”.





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[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. Would it be reasonable to assume that the "hack" basically amounted to...

figuring out what email address various celebrities were using and then just looking up the personal information to answer password reset challenge questions such as "What high school did you attend?"

Although this makes me feel really, really out of touch since I have only heard of one of these supposed celebrities before.

[big_dog]

2. exactly,Apple just said there was no 'hack'

and mothers maiden name, first pet etc. are probably all out there on wikipedia

[PoliticAverse]

5. Companies have been known to lie about such things and Apple apparently

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did fix an oversight in some of their software that appears to have allowed unlimited automated
password guessing, see:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5475745

Also how would Apple know for sure at this point how all the photographs were obtained?

[PoliticAverse]

4. Yes that could be it. Also apparently there was an oversight discovered in some Apple software

that allowed someone to do unlimited automated password guessing, see:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5475745

[NCcoast]

3. "It is a disgraceful breach of privacy,"

"the likes of which we have never seen before."... well you know, accept for maybe every day, at 100,000 times the magnitude, which the government is doing to all of the citizens of the United States, accept for that maybe... it's pretty big for a bunch of armatures anyway.

[Psephos]

14. Yes! This. n/t

[Orrex]

6. Get a Mac.

Oh, wait.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Security exposures exist with every public Cloud service. Next time your bank touts it's cloud... nt

[saidsimplesimon]

9. Ah "The Cloud", this must be the manifestation

of predictions from my corporate overlord in the 90's. Bell Labs management predicted cell phones would become a ubiquitous network.

[PoliticAverse]

10. Dick Tracy had one...

[TheBlackAdder]

7. England - The ultimate Panoptic Society. And they couldn't tell that this was happening? nt

[conservaphobe]

11. Someone has successfully trolled The Mirror.

If they went to the 'website that shall not be named' for answers, someone likely fed them some.

[Alkene]

12. "...several months of long and hard work”...

I'll bet.

[sendero]

13. "hackers"..

... don't do this kind of SHIT. I'm looking forward to his long prison stay.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

15. with all the other problems the FBI

has to work on , how does a hacker leaking 'dirty pictures' get moved to the top of the list?