![]() Apple typically protects its products from so-called “brute force” programs that repeatedly guess random passwords for a given username until it gets a match.īut for some reason, various tech blogs have reported, Apple failed to do this with its Find My iPhone service. The leading theory goes that hackers found a vulnerability in Apple iCloud’s “Find My iPhone” service, which helps users find lost or stolen phones via the cloud. Others, like Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice, claimed the photos were fakes. ![]() Some celebrities, Lawrence and Upton included, confirmed the photos’ authenticity. The hacker claimed that there could be posts of more than 100 celebrities in total. But for those of us who don’t intuitively understand technology the questions remain: how could this happen and could it happen to me? Here are some answers:Īn anonymous user posted photos of celebrities like The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence and model Kate Upton to the site 4Chan. The leak of personal photos of more than 100 female celebrities, nude and otherwise, has tech observers questioning and debating potential vulnerabilities in Apple’s iCloud.
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