According to the Los Angeles Times, the FBI has joined the hunt for the culprit or culprits who leaked nude pictures of mostly female celebrities. I didn't say actors because I have no idea who a couple of the names I read are. Maybe they were sports figure.
Anyway, if this could happen to them, it could happen to anyone - opening us up to potential blackmailing or other sorts of crime. At best, just embarrassment. This is a kind of sexual predation. Privacy is a big deal to me and I think we need to keep any eye out on this.
If companies are not being careful about our cloud privacy and security, a large scale and very public case like this should. So, let me go back a bit and explain in a couple of sentences what happened in case you like myself was away from the Web or television for this Labor Day weekend in the US.
Apparently, someone hacked into an online photo account, with iCloud being named as the source of these pictures (there was talk that some of the pics were taken on Android and Blackberry phones), of a celebrity or others and leaked them online.
I watch movies that I like and there are few actors or actresses that I really know by name. So, I don't know who some of the victims are but their names are familiar. Also, I don't want to name sites that some of these pictures were uploaded to. This is a despicable act and I hope these guys are found and put away forever.
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