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Aug 26, 2017 · Two top British TV stars also hacked. On Tuesday, more celebrities joined this year’s edition of the Fappening, with the list expanding with Lindsey Vonn, Miley Cyrus, Kristen Steward, and Tiger ...
2014 celebrity nude photo leak. On August 31, 2014, a collection of nearly five hundred private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, with many containing nudity, were posted on the imageboard 4chan, and swiftly disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit. The leak was dubbed " The Fappening ...
- The Celebs Want Your Bitcoin
- Lawyers to The Stars Get Hacked
- Radiohead Hack Themselves
- Jeff Bezos Gets Phished
- 2014 Icloud Sensitive Photo Leaks
- How Do Celebs Get Hacked?
- What Can You Do If You Get Hacked?
- How to Prevent Being Hacked
In 2020, a small team of teenage hackers hijacked 130 high-profile Twitter accounts — including some of the platform’s most-followed celebrities such as Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and Bill Gates — to carry out a Bitcoin scam over the popular social network. The attack netted the hackers over $110,000 in Bitcoinwithin just a few minutes. P...
Celebrity law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, which counts among its clients such A-listers as Madonna, Lil Nas X, Robert De Niro, and LeBron James, recently found itself on the receiving end of a massive hack. In May 2020, the noted hacking collective REvil — also known as Sodinokibi and one of the world’s most dangerous hacking groups — clai...
What would you do if a hacker stole a bunch of your private data, then threatened to release it unless you paid them a $150,000 ransom? If you’re Radiohead, you simply release the stolen material yourself. In 2019, guitarist Jonny Greenwood tweeted that bandmate Thom Yorke’s minidisk archive had been hacked. Rather than pay the hackers, the band ch...
Even Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man, isn’t immune to hacking. In 2018, Bezos received a videosent from the WhatsApp account of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The two were acquainted, so it wasn’t out of the ordinary that the prince might pass along a link to a chuckle-worthy clip. When Bezos opened the video file, his phon...
The vilest kind of hackers delight in causing harm. In a series of wide-ranging hacks known as The Fappening or Celebgate, many celebrities — mostly women — found their most intimate photos freely available on the internet. The attackers reportedly used password-cracking software to brute-force attack the iCloud passwords of the victimized celebrit...
Most of the time, celebrities get hacked the same ways anyone else does. They use weak passwords, fall for social engineering tricks, or suffer from data leaks when larger organizations holding their data are breached. Here’s a closer look at the most common techniques hackers use to hack the stars — techniques we can all fall victim to if we’re no...
Getting hacked is stressful, but if it happens to you, there’s plenty you can do about it. Here’s how you can fight back against the hackers to recover your data, regain control over your devices and accounts, and help protect your friends and family. 1. Isolate the hacked device:Unplug any Ethernet cables and disable Wi-Fi on the hacked device. Th...
The best protection against hacking is prevention. Here’s how to make yourself as unhackable a target as possible: 1. Use strong passwords:Password laziness is a leading cause of hacking. Protect all your accounts and devices (including your Wi-Fi network) with passwords (or passphrases) that are at least 15 to 20 characters long, hard to guess, an...
Mar 16, 2016 · 16 March 2016. Twitter: The Heavy's report on Ryan Collins. You may remember the fappening, also known as Celebgate - when an anonymous hacker, or hackers, leaked naked pictures of more than 100 ...
Sep 2, 2014 · FBI investigates 'Cloud' celebrity picture leaks. Tim Allman reports on the hacking allegations surrounding the online posting of the private photos of several celebrities, including the actress ...
Dec 24, 2020 · Getty Images. Hackers have stolen the data of a large cosmetic surgery chain and are threatening to publish patients' before and after photos, among other details. The Hospital Group, which has a ...
The FBI has reportedly begun inquiries into reports that hackers stole and leaked private and intimate pictures of over 100 celebrities. According to Associated Press, the FBI said on Tuesday it ...
