Some of you probably remember that one iCloud hack from 2014, in which they were stolen nude pictures of Hollywood stars, several thousand appearing on the Internet, along with dozens of video clips. The FBI investigated the crimes committed then to reveal those nude pictures of Hollywood stars, and in recent years various people have been convicted.
Now we are talking about a former high school teacher from Virginia, he was sentenced to 34 months in prison for accessing the iCloud, Yahoo, Facebook accounts of more than 200 people. Among them were both ordinary people and Hollywood stars, and of course he also took nude pictures of some of the people.
High School Teacher CONDEMNED for an iCloud Hack with Stolen NUDE Photos
The teacher managed to gain access to the iCloud backups of the victims, stealing pictures and video clips, but the access was obtained through phishing attacks. He forged emails that seemed to come from Apple, and obtained the login data of the victims, but in other situations he managed to obtain the passwords by answering the security questions of the accounts with data taken from the Facebook pages of the victims.
According to court documents, Christopher Brannan, 31, intentionally accessed without authorization Internet and email accounts, including Apple iCloud, Yahoo!, and Facebook accounts, and obtained complete iCloud backups, photographs, and other private information belonging to more than 200 victims, including both celebrities and non-celebrities.
Apple has never admitted that iCloud was hacked, and the authorities have not claimed this in any of the cases in which they have brought defendants to court. It would seem that in most cases it was about phishing or social engineering attacks, that is, accessing accounts by changing passwords using security questions and answers obtained by analyzing social networks.
