Jennifer Lawrence Picture: File
A suspected breach in the iCloud service Apple seems to be behind the leaks of private photos of a hundred singers , actresses or models. So it ensures that the hacker accessed the content, which could have used a brute force attack using a script file commands able to discover the password.
The massive hacking of accounts allowed to steal photos taken with mobile devices celebrities as Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande or Kirsten Dunst. Images that contain nudity or compromising situations from the famous, were housed in iCloud, as the thief, who also could have accessed other services.
As reported in The Next Web, a malicious script programmed in Python that appeared last Monday may have been the software used to steal passwords for the accounts of many famous iCloud.
Thanks to a vulnerability in the Find My iPhone app, which allows locating remote terminals and contacting with iCloud, the software would have been able to guess the key by an attack? Brutal force? basically predictable passwords keep trying until you find the right, without iCloud repaired in constant failed attempts.
This script was available on Github two days, before being published in media like Hack News, during which was used and tested by many netizens with their accounts or other. shortly after the failure was corrected and iCloud is now no longer possible to get the password of the account of Apple, but it could be the fault that the attacker would have used in the #celebgate ed.
The access to the keys of the accounts of the famous may be behind the leaks of nude photos or committed over a hundred images of faces like Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez, Kirsten Dunst Arana Large or . It could also be that the keys had been used not only in the iCloud account, but many other services who shared the same Password
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