As is now widely known, over the Labor Day weekend, hundreds of naked photos of celebrities were leaked on the image-based Web bulletin board 4chan before spreading to multiple Internet sites, with one of the involved hackers pointing towards vulnerabilities in Apple's iCloud service as the source of the security breach. For its part, MacRumors has reported that "Apple is actively investigating [the] alleged breach of several celebrity iCloud accounts that may have allowed hackers to access the private photos and videos of multiple well-known actresses," according to a statement by an Apple spokesperson. Meanwhile, Business Insider's James Cook has assembled an investigative report that takes a look inside the underground iCloud hacking ring that leaked the nude celebrity photos. Finally, for stringently security-minded regular (i.e. non-celebrity) folk, Forbes has posted a handy step-by-step reference that describes how to disable Apple iCloud.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
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