How do celebrity phones get hacked?

So I just found out that a year ago unbeknownst to me private photos of the lovely Christina Hendricks had been leaked from her phone. Seems like almost every actress nowadays has some sort of nude pictures floating around. How do hackers manage to systematically break into celebrity phones? Anyone know what the process looks like more or less (or is just simply someone stealing their phone) and how to prevent it?

1. what kind of photos u got on your phone
2. whose phone you wanna hijack

99,99% of the time it is not the phone (OS) itself that is hacked, but the medium by which it is stored outside of the phone.
E.g. e-mail accounts, cloud storages (iCloud etc) or computers that are routinely syncing to the phone.

Someone with a botnet might run something that checks to see if any of his slaves are owned by celebrities, and
goes on to directly target them if there are and steal their iCloud or e-mail credentials and/or make a trojan
that will be automatically synced to their phone and then reports back to you.

But there can be so much value in celebrity's phones, not strictly financial,
but in other ways to people who obsess over certain celebrities, that there might be someone directly targeting them.
You only need look at how many people are obsessed with celebrities and how many people are black hats to see that these might overlap
and someone with serious knowledge of phone OS's and hacking/networking might be performing direct attacks.

The easiest way to do a direct attack on a specific phone, I would imagine, is compromising a poorly secured WiFi that you know the owner might be using,
at for example Starbucks or whatever and performing a MITM on whatever they sign onto (then goto 99,99% of the time = e-mails, iCloud)

So if you're not copying your photos or whatever to an outside medium like an e-mail account or iCloud or you don't sync your phone with those you should be good?

christina is pretty cute heh. who else got hacked? i only know of her and rihanna.. ohand i think scarlett got hacked before too

On April 06 2013 18:51 tomson wrote: So if you're not copying your photos or whatever to an outside medium like an e-mail account or iCloud or you don't sync your phone with those you should be good?

Well yeah you should be good. The same would not go for Barack Obama. Feel me breh?

On April 06 2013 18:38 dnagardi wrote: 1. what kind of photos u got on your phone 2. whose phone you wanna hijack

I'm taking precautions in case I become an overnight celebrity, have to keep my dick pics private.

On April 06 2013 19:04 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: christina is pretty cute heh. who else got hacked? i only know of her and rihanna.. ohand i think scarlett got hacked before too

Jessica Alba, Vanessa Hudgens, Ke$ha, Snooki, Leighton Meester to name some. You'd think celebs would be more careful by now, though who knows - some of them might very well be publicty stunts.

lol only sexy women's phones get hacked,ever. so it does seem gimmicky

yea i think there are clearly some who are doing it for publicity. especially those pics they tweet "mistakenly"

Two threads about celebrities nude, for the one who was asking...i think the first page you are gonna see is a question asking if you are over 18, just click "SI"
http://www.subdivx.com/X12X116X153440...otos-de-famosas-desnudas-y-sexys.html
http://www.subdivx.com/X12X116X153718...famosas-desnudas-y-sexys-parte-2.html

And for the hacking, probably something like this

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/

Or something like this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bling_Ring

A movie about bling ring is going to be out soon with

On April 06 2013 20:18 whamm! wrote: lol only sexy women's phones get hacked,ever. so it does seem gimmicky

it only happens to sexy women, because people only want to see pics of naked sexy women. Why would you hack the women of some famous 80 year old women. I doubt many people would want to knock one out to those saggy tits.

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awww fake and gay ; (

They get leaked because they r celebs so security answers like "what elementary school did you go to" are easy to find on google.

According to the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles, Chaney gained access to the email accounts of Mika Kunis, Scarlett Johansson, Renee Olstead and dozens of other celebrities by resetting their passwords using the "forgot your password" feature. Chaney apparently used publicly available information on the celebrities to correctly answer the security questions needed to reset the passwords on the Gmail, Apple and Yahoo email accounts they used.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/articl...ty_email_accounts_sentenced_to_prison

noice

its always the jealous boyfriend/man/dukes in her life that do scandalous shit

I always thought they leaked them out themself. Naked photo its good PR, and "got hacked" is a pretty good excuse in most people's book.

I call bullshit on these leaks. It's never Jennifer Lawrence or Kate beckinsadle, always some b -Lister or actress who's career is going nowhere or is in the toilet already. No homo coz I still enjoy these pics though lol

posted links to photos do not work :disappointed:

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