However, actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead claimed on Twitter that the leaked photos of her included in the hack were taken "years ago." Analysis of the embedded EXIF data (information about where and how the picture was taken that is frequently appended to digital photo images) included in one of the leaked images shows it was taken a few weeks ago, well within Photo Stream's limit of 30 days before images are deleted. Do it yourself."Īfter discovering the iCloud account of a celebrity, it's trivially easy to access their online photo backup through Apple's Photo Stream utility and iCloud photo backups. Jennifer Lawrence is known to use iCloud after she let slip in a red carpet interview with MTV this year that she frequently has trouble with the service, remarking "My iCloud keeps telling me to back it up, and I'm like, I don't know how to back you up. UPDATE: Apple has patched a security flaw in iCloud that could have been used to hack celebrity accounts.Instead the photos most likely emerged due to a type of hacking known as "social engineering." This exploit works by learning which online services your target uses, and then compiling as much data on them as possible before using that data to either spoof access, or to simply use their email address and a guessed password to log in to their account. It's unlikely that someone has broken into Apple's iCloud service. The unidentified Marine, who faces imminent administrative discharge, was sentenced to 10 days confinement, forfeiture part of one month’s pay, and reduction in rank by three grades.The original leaker behind the celebrity photos claimed that they accessed the images using the iCloud accounts of various celebrities. The Corps announced on July 10 that the first Marine had pleaded guilty to sharing nude photos without consent on the now-defunct Facebook group page. In recent months, NCIS reviewed more than 130,000 explicit images across 168 websites, identifying 67 Marines (and 22 civilians) as persons of interest in the Marines United investigation. Indeed, the escalation among offenders with Marine ties comes amid growing pressure from military authorities.
“Until we address that rot, and ensure the punishment fits the crime, we're going to continue to spend valuable time and resources running down these perpetrators.”
Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California who’s been leading the charge against revenge porn for years, told Task & Purpose in a statement regarding the Daily Beast story. “Nonconsensual pornography continues to be a culture of rot spread throughout the military,” Rep.
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