Your pictures — and info — could be next.
The FBI said it was “aware of the allegations concerning computer
intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals,
and is addressing the matter,” spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said in a statement.
Experts are looking at whether a flaw in Apple’s iPhone operating
system allowed a hacker to swipe naked pictures of dozens of stars — including
Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence and model Kate Upton — and publish them on the
Internet.
The FBI said it was “aware of the allegations concerning computer
intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals,
and is addressing the matter,” spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said in a statement.
The glitch could be linked to the Find My iPhone app, according
to The Next Web, which reported that the program had allowed hackers to
attempt to log in repeatedly instead of getting locked out after several wrong
tries.
That flaw would allow a hacker’s
computer to guess millions of passwords in hopes of getting a match. The
correct password then could be used to access the user’s iCloud account — and a
trove of personal information.
That also means everyone could be vulnerable to the same photo theft
that happened to actresses Kirsten Dunst, Lea Michele, soccer star Hope Solo
and singers Rihanna and Ariana Grande.
Apple reportedly patched the security flaw Monday, but the company
declined to comment on that.
“We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating
this report,” said company spokeswoman Nat Kerris.
“This is obviously an outrageous
violation of our client Kate Upton's privacy,” Upton’s
lawyer Lawrence Shire told Us Weekly. "We intend to pursue anyone
disseminating or duplicating these illegally obtained images to the fullest
extent possible."
lso on Monday, comedian Ricky Gervais took heat for placing blame on
the victims. “Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you
from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on your computer,” he tweeted.
He later took down the post after others took to the Internet to say
his comments were similar to the way sex assault victims have been blamed.
“The ‘don’t take naked pics if you don’t want them online’ argument is
the ‘she was wearing a short skirt’ of the Web. Ugh,” tweeted “Girls” star Lena
Dunham.
Many took aim at those who shared the pics, such as celebrity blogger
Perez Hilton, who had published some of the uncensored photos on his blog,
before removing them and apologizing.
"Sharing these images is…an act of sexual violation, and it
deserves the same social and legal punishment as meted out to stalkers and
other sexual predators," wrote columnist Van Badham for The Guardian.
And others laid blame on those who looked at the pictures.
"Searching out these images is to be complicit in the crime,"
wrote Lucy Hunter Johnston for the Independent. "The way in which we share
our bodies must be a choice."
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