Stolen selfies of stars uncensored via icloud. “Hacking” of Olga Buzova, Ksenia Sobchak and other high-profile hacker attacks on stars. Theft of the century: leaking intimate photos of hundreds of Hollywood stars

In May last year, singer Katy Perry became a victim of hacking. Suddenly, insults began to pour in on her Twitter account towards herself and her relatives. In a completely unexpected turn, the message was sent to Taylor Swift, with whom Katie has a long-standing feud. “Miss you baby,” Perry allegedly wrote. 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: the theft of personal photos by hackers or the 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 at the same time 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 past, she felt that bringing this old tape to light was a cynical invasion of her privacy.

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That same year, the actress suffered another blow: hackers published emails from film producers with harsh criticism of Angelina Jolie. Due to the irresponsibility of Sony Pictures studio managers, who are accustomed to storing passwords for important accounts in unprotected text documents, the correspondence of producers, directors, managers and other Hollywood bigwigs has become available. In the correspondence, among other things, Angelina’s creativity and personality were discussed. Thus, producer Scott Rudin, without mincing words at all, called the famous actress untalented and spoiled. The messages refer to the film “Cleopatra,” which has been talked about for a long time, but production has still not started - and now it’s clear why. “I have absolutely no interest in doing a $180 million project to please Jolie, because such a film would destroy 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 shouldn’t become everyone’s laughing stock.”

Hack Blac Chyna's Instagram

Things are rarely calm in the Kardashian family: robbery, nervous breakdowns, gender reassignment... In December, another incident occurred: hackers hacked the Instagram of model Blac Chyna and made part of her personal correspondence publicly available. It turned out that China does not like Rob Kardashian, the younger brother of Kim Kardashian, with whom she gave birth to a daughter a couple of months ago. Chyna calls him "lazy" and "fat." While talking with a friend, Black directly called her relationship with Rob a PR and a way to get the Kardashian surname!

In addition, the burglars discovered that Blac Chyna also 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 just part of the plan. I believed that she loved me as much as I loved her.”

Hacking Ksenia Sobchak's WhatsApp

In 2016, correspondence from Ksenia Sobchak’s WhatsApp was leaked onto the Internet. Ksenia mainly talked with her friends Ulyana Sergeenko, Nika Belotserkovskaya, and her ex-fiancé Alexander Shusterovich. One of the objects of discussion was Victoria Bonya. In correspondence, socialite friends accused Bonya of wearing counterfeits. It must be said that Victoria reacted quite calmly to this event and wrote on Instagram that she does not hold a grudge and forgives her offenders. However, Victoria later deleted the post. According to her subscribers, this was caused by fear of bullying from Ksenia.

Hacking Olga Buzova's phone

At the end of 2016, hackers gained access to Olga Buzova’s phone. In addition to quite ordinary correspondence, the attackers found and posted materials of a very personal nature on the Internet. Among other things, explicit photos and videos that Olga allegedly sent to Dmitry Nagiyev appeared on the Internet. However, the actor denied that the scandalous recordings 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: “We must understand that you and I are rubbish and very messy. But for the sake of your loved one, you can become better - it’s the little things like making the bed, putting away the trash, rinsing the sink after yourself.”

The TV presenter herself responded to the hack with humor and joked about the leak on the air of the show “Dancing,” where she is a judge.

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

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

Earlier this year, the hacker - 29-year-old Edward Majerczyk from Chicago - was found and sentenced to 9 months in prison. It turned out that iCloud accounts were hacked through account confirmation: Maerchik sent letters asking to confirm logins and passwords for iCloud and Gmail accounts. The link in this letter led to a phishing site, thanks to which he gained access to the personal information of celebrities who provided personal information.

Unknown hackers exposed personal photos of actresses Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried to the public. The girls themselves have not yet commented on the leak, but this is not the first such case. Medialeaks tells how other celebrities previously commented on the leaks, blaming photoshop for everything and even finding something funny in what was happening.

“People, these so-called naked photos of me are FAKE. Let me nip (rumors about this) in the bud.”

Ariana Grande also stated that it was photoshop, and joked that the authors of the pictures could have found someone more beautiful. And at the same time she advertised her tour.

to every1 going on about my "nudes" & my "m&g prices" neither are real! my lil ass is a lot cuter than that lmao & tour details r comin soon

“To everyone who has seen my “naked pictures” - none of them are real! My tiny ass is much cuter than the one over there. I’m laughing to tears, I’ll publish information about the tour soon.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/sc7upvuWUs/?modal=true

“What a wonderful day it was when my husband and I frolicked on the beaches in Mexico City! Do we seem to have forgotten something?

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

These images began to appear online the night before: the hacker decided to make a business out of the stolen images and, having demonstrated 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 “naked selfies” of her.

A spokesman for Lawrence said: “This is a gross violation of privacy. We have already contacted the relevant authorities: anyone who publishes stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence will be punished,” notes hollywoodreporter.com.

Hackers also posted explicit photos of Kirsten Dunst, Teresa Palmer, fashion models Kate Upton, Bar Refaeli, two-time Olympic soccer champion Hope Solo, and many other stars.

Among the victims of a cyber attack on Hollywood celebrities was the future wife of Ukrainian boxer Vladimir Klitschko, actress Hayden Pannetiere.

iCloud accounts are designed to allow iPad, iPhone and Mac users to sync calendars, photos, settings and other data on 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 stars occurred in 2005, when hackers managed to gain access to Paris Hilton's phone and download photos from there. Then the attackers managed to gain access to the phone by answering a secret question, to which the socialite chose the name of her dog as the answer.

The largest leak of star intimate photos, called The Fappening, did not go unnoticed by fans. Sympathizers for the victims of the leak publish their own intimate photos on social networks with the tag #leakforjlaw.

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

The issue of third parties gaining access to intimate materials stored on the cloud was first widely discussed after the release of the film (Home Video in Russian distribution), the heroes of which accidentally sent their adult video to friends and relatives. In addition, just recently, Russian hackers from the Anonymous International group announced that they were from the accounts on Facebook, Twitter and VKontakte of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. However, the current action of cyber criminals raises many more questions.

So, according to the 4chan hacker who published the archives with photographs, he was offered a sum of six zeros for providing the exclusive right to print and publish the photographs to the tabloid TMZ, but he chose to simply put them in the public domain. We are talking about photos of celebrities such 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 synchronization of Camera Roll with iCloud . Everything would have been fine if celebrities had not taken selfies naked and without makeup - such fame turned out to be of no use to them.

Experts traditionally cite 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 the accounts of which could have been obtained either as a result of a group of hackers of unprecedented scale in its targeted activity, or in the event of a vulnerability being discovered in the iCloud system as such. Parallels security specialist Anton Dedov notes that a cloud service is very difficult to make 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 several years ago a similar incident occurred in the United States when an attacker published photographs of Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. The result is 10 years in prison. As for Apple's reputation, it has suffered seriously recently and experts will certainly make every effort to avoid similar incidents in the future.