An attacker hacked into iCloud accounts of the stars and took possession of their personal information, including explicit photos and videos. As it turned out, many celebrities store them in their smartphones.

These shots the night before began to appear on the network: the hacker decided to make a business on the stolen pictures and, having shown some of them, offers to show the public more in exchange for bitcoins (digital currency).

Photos of Jennifer Lawrence were the first to "surface". The hacker claims that he has more than 60 of her "naked selfies".

Lawrence's spokesman said: “This is a flagrant violation of the right to privacy. We have already contacted the relevant authorities: everyone who publishes the stolen photo of Jennifer Lawrence will be punished, ”says hollywoodreporter.com.

The hackers also posted candid photos of Kirsten Dunst, Teresa Palmer, fashion models Kate Upton, Bar Rafaeli, two-time Olympic football champion Hope Solo and many other stars on the network.

Among the victims of a cyberattack on Hollywood celebrities was the future wife of Ukrainian boxer Vladimir Klitschko - actress Hayden Pannetier.

ICloud accounts are designed to help iPad, iPhone, and Mac users sync their calendars, photos, settings, and more across their gadgets. The service has been repeatedly criticized for its unreliability.

Earlier this year, Jennifer Lawrence herself complained about the inconvenience of iCloud in an interview with MTV: “My iCloud keeps telling me to back up, and I’m like, I don’t know how to back up. Do it yourself, ”notes Gazeta.Ru.

The first case of such an attack on the stars occurred in 2005, when hackers managed to get access to Paris Hilton's phone and siphon photos from there. Then the attackers managed to gain access to the phone, answering a secret question, as an answer to which the socialite chose the name of her dog.

The largest leak of stellar intimate photos, dubbed The Fappening, did not go unnoticed by fans. Compassionate victims of the leak post their own intimate photos on social networks with the #leakforjlaw tag.

In May last year, singer Katy Perry became a victim of a hack. Suddenly, on her Twitter account, insults began to pour in towards herself and her relatives. A completely unexpected twist came a message to Taylor Swift, with whom Katie has a long-standing feud. “I miss you, baby,” allegedly wrote Perry. Of course, fans couldn't believe it and recognized the hack. Fortunately, the singer was able to regain control of her account and delete all the tweets posted by the hackers.

Sony Pictures vs. Angelina Jolie

What could be worse for a star: theft by hackers of personal photos or betrayal of colleagues and partners? Angelina Jolie has been in both situations. So, in June 2014, the British website Daily Mail published a video made in 1999. The dealer brought Angie another dose and simultaneously filmed the actress talking on the phone with her father. Jolie, who was using heroin at the time, did not look her best. Although Jolie never denied her drug-related past, she felt that bringing this old tape into the world was a cynical invasion of her privacy.

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In the same year, the actress suffered another blow: hackers published emails from film producers sharply criticizing Angelina Jolie. Due to the irresponsibility of Sony Pictures studio managers, accustomed to storing passwords for important accounts in unprotected text documents, correspondence of producers, directors, managers and other Hollywood bigwigs became available. In the correspondence, among other things, the work and personality of Angelina were discussed. So, producer Scott Rudin, absolutely not embarrassed in expressions, called the famous actress mediocre and spoiled. The messages are about the film "Cleopatra", which has been talked about for a long time, but production still has not started - and now it is clear why. “I have absolutely no interest in doing a 180 million dollar project to amuse Jolie, because a movie like that would ruin our careers. I'm not going to suffer because of a minimally gifted and spoiled child, says Rudin. - I will not work with her or with those whom she chooses. She's just a star, nothing more, and because of such a project you should not become a general laughing stock. "

Hack Instagram Black Chyna

The Kardashian family is rarely calm: robbery, nervous breakdowns, sex change ... In December, there was another incident: hackers hacked Black China's Instagram model and made part of her personal correspondence publicly available. It turned out that China does not like Rob Kardashian at all, the younger brother of Kim Kardashian, from whom she gave birth to a daughter a couple of months ago. Chyna calls him "lazy" and "fat". Communicating with her friend, Black directly called the relationship with Rob a PR and a way to get the name Kardashian!

In addition, the burglars discovered that Black Chyna corresponded with other men.

Rob himself confirmed that what happened was true. All this shocked him: “I loved everything about this woman. I gave everything to her. I didn't know that I was only part of the plan. I believed that she loved me as much as I loved her. "

Hacking WhatsApp Ksenia Sobchak


In 2016, Ksenia Sobchak's WhatsApp correspondence leaked to the Internet. Basically, Ksenia talked with her friends Ulyana Sergeenko, Nika Belotserkovskaya, her ex-fiancé Alexander Shusterovich. Victoria Bonya became one of the objects of discussion. In the correspondence, secular friends accused Bonya of wearing fakes. I must say that Victoria reacted calmly enough to this event and wrote on Instagram that she does not hold evil and forgives her offenders. True, then Victoria deleted the post. According to her subscribers, this was due to the fear of bullying from Xenia.

Hacking Olga Buzova's phone

At the end of 2016, hackers gained access to Olga Buzova's phone. In addition to the usual correspondence, the attackers found and posted on the Internet materials of a very personal nature. Including on the Web were candid photos and videos that Olga allegedly sent to Dmitry Nagiyev. However, the actor denied that the scandalous records reached him. Olga's correspondence with her mother was also made public. In a conversation with her daughter, the woman calls for cleanliness and order: “You have to understand that you and I are bullshit and very glove. But for the sake of a loved one, you can become better - these are such trifles as making the bed, removing the trash, rinsing the sink after yourself. "

The TV presenter herself reacted to the hacking with humor and joked about the leak on the air of the show "Dances", where she is a judge.

Theft of the century: draining intimate photos of hundreds of Hollywood stars


August 31, 2014 - this day will be special in the history of the Internet. On the Web there were candid photos of actresses, singers, TV presenters, among whom were: Jennifer Lawrence, Kaley Cuoco, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande, Kirsten Dunst, Leia Michelle, Selena Gomez and about a hundred other celebrities. The main blow fell on the star of the Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence. The hackers had at their disposal not only a huge archive of her very candid photos, but also a series of videos made by Jen at home.

Earlier this year, the hacker - 29-year-old Edward Maerchik from Chicago - was found and sentenced to 9 months in prison. It turned out that the hacking of iCloud accounts took place through the confirmation of accounts: Maerchik sent letters with a request to confirm the logins and passwords from the iCloud and Gmail accounts. The link in this letter led to a phishing site, thanks to which it got access to the personal information of the celebrities who provided their personal data.

a scandal known as The Fappening or Celebgate. On March 15, 2016, the US Department of Justice released an official statement, according to which Ryan Collins, 36, was guilty of the massive hacking of Gmail and iCloud accounts of the stars (with the subsequent publication of their personal pictures on 4chan).

Let me remind you that in 2014 the network got intimate pictures of stars of the first magnitude, among which were Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kirsten Dunst and others. Then the hacker managed to gain access to other people's iCloud accounts, most of whose owners were well-known personalities.

But it seems that Collins has some worthy followers. Today, March 15, 2017, the attackers "celebrated" The Fappening's anniversary by uploading new personal photos of two famous actresses, Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfred, to the network.

In addition, a message appeared on the 4chan imageboard, according to which this leak is just the beginning. Unknown persons promised to soon publish personal photos and videos of several dozen other famous actresses. Pictures of some of the stars on this list have already begun to appear on thefappening.so.

It is not yet known exactly how the attackers obtained the intimate photographs of the actresses. Let me remind you that in 2014, Collins sent targeted phishing emails to his famous victims and their friends, in which he introduced himself as a Google or Apple employee and asked the victims to provide their username and password. Thus, he gained access to 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts. No details yet this time. It is only known that the leak was "announced" on Reddit. A user with the nickname Alverx warned that Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfred will soon make headlines, and wrote: "I don't want to break the rules of Reddit, so no links yet, but we have a very good drama in the next couple of days."

Apple's cloud service is increasingly becoming the anti-hero of scandals that receive a wide public response. Moreover, this time, the attackers really managed to amaze even the public, accustomed to various kinds of leaks - almost a hundred intimate pictures were leaked to the Internet.

Third parties got access to intimate materials stored on the cloud for the first time after the release of the film (in the Russian box office "Home Video"), the characters of which accidentally sent their adult video to friends and relatives. In addition, quite recently, Russian hackers from the Anonymous International group announced that they had received Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev from their Facebook, Twitter and Vkontakte accounts. However, the current action of cyber criminals raises much more questions.

So, according to the hacker 4chan, who published the archives with photos, he was offered a sum with six zeros for granting exclusive rights to print and publish the images to the tabloid TMZ, but he chose to just put them in the public domain. We are talking about photographs of such celebrities as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Avril Lavigne, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kate Olsen, Rihanna, Victoria Justice, Ariana Garanda, Kirsten Dunst, Nadezhda Solo, Kristen Ritteri and many others who have set up automatic sync of iCloud with Camera Roll. ... Everything would be fine if celebrities did not practice selfies in the nude and without makeup - they did not need such fame.

Experts traditionally name the human factor as one of the most likely reasons for hacking - weak passwords, lack of two-factor authentication, simple code words, access to the cloud from a large number of uncontrolled devices, etc., but in this case we are talking about too many celebrities , access to whose accounts could be obtained either as a result of an unprecedented target activity of a group of hackers, or in the case of a vulnerability in the iCloud system as such. Parallels security specialist Anton Dedov notes that it is very difficult to make a cloud service secure, since it must be accessible to the user from different devices, from anywhere in the world, to store arbitrary information.

Be that as it may, the hackers who carried out this action are at great risk, because a few years ago in the United States there was a similar case when an attacker published photographs of Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. The result is 10 years in prison. As for the reputation of Apple, it has been seriously damaged in recent years and the specialists will certainly make every effort to avoid similar incidents in the future.