Is this the oldest case of cannibalism? Cuts made on a bone from a mysterious human relative 1.5 million.The Spiderman star tweeted 'Thank you iCloud', the day after naked photos of her were published online. Kirsten Dunst became the first celebrity to publicly criticise Apple on Monday when she posted a sarcastic message on Twitter. 'Any further comment would be inappropriate at this time.' 'The FBI is aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals, and is addressing the matter. The hacker who posted the first batch of pictures said it was the result of 'several months of hard work by all those involved'Īnd in a statement issued on Monday afternoon, the FBI confirmed that it had also begun an investigation. However, despite not admitting the bug was caused by its system, the tech giant issued a 'patch', or fix, for the alleged 'Find My iPhone' bug some claim is responsible. The hacker claims he or she broke into stars' iCloud accounts, including those of the Hunger Games actress, Kate Upton and Rihanna, before publishing them on 4chan, the image-sharing forum.Ī list of the alleged victims of the hack - a staggering 101 in total - has also been posted online most of whom have not seen any photographs leaked by the hacker.Ĭluley said he thought 'more leaks are to come'.Įxperts also think a flaw in Apple's Find my Phone was used for some of the hacks. 'Apple is about to announce a new iPhone, and people will use iCloud to move their data do it, because it’s such a simple process. Jeffifer Lawrence and model Cara Delevingne are among those hit by the leaks so far 'In the case of celebrities, these secret questions are very easy to find online - either in Wikipedia or by searching through some interviews.' 'It certainly possible that people would have used this,' he said. 'But what we have seen is that hackers can access address books - and this would have helped the hackers.'Ĭlulely also believes the 'reset password' system may have been used. Security consultant Graham Cluley told MailOnline: 'For these attacks to work, you also need email addresses of target. 'It does appear that there was a flaw in iCloud - and we need to hear from Apple what the problem was, and what they are going to do to make it better,’Įxperts believe the breadth of the celebrities affected could be down to a ‘chain effect’ - once one celebrities phonebook was accessed, it could lead to dozens more. 'There's a lot of historical precedent here - and this is just a first strike for Apple. 'Historically we don't see a mass exodus from breaches, consumers don't seem to change their behaviour. He also believed consumers were likely to stay with the firm despite the breaches. 'We don't know what happened yet, and In the security world, you need all the facts.' Mogull, who admitted hackers had tried to access his account, warned that it was still unclear exactly what happened. 'Many users use simple passwords that are the same across services so it's entirely possible to guess passwords using a tool like this,' said Owen Williams form The Next Web. Just as a criminal might break into, or 'crack' a safe by trying many possible combinations, a brute-force cracking attempt goes through all possible combinations of characters in sequence.In a six-letter attack. 'The end of the fun, Apple has just patched,' read an update on the post.īrute force, also known as 'brute force cracking', is a trial-and-error method used to get plain-text passwords from encrypted data. Code on software development site Github called iBrute, would have allowed malicious users to use ‘brute force’ to gain an account’s password on Apple iCloud, and in particular its Find my iPhone service.Īpple has since issued a fix for the bug.
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