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Celeb Photo Hack Leveraged by Scammers

Celeb Photo Hack Leveraged by Scammers

September 2, 2014

The recent incident in which pics of scantily clad or unclad female celebrities were leaked online rattled not only the interest of their fans but also of scammers, who tried to capitalize on the brute-force vulnerability used by the hackers for the deed. The content popped up on 4Chan and AnonIB starting Sunday evening, exposing more skin than celebs would have wanted; it is believed that the method used by the perps was to brute-force the login into Apples iCloud service, which did n…