Jennifer Lawrence Leaked Nudes is a 'very targeted attack' - this is what Apple has said after launching a full investigation on the leaking of racy photos of the Oscar winner and many other female celebrities that includes Kirsten Dunst, Kate Upton and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The company also insisted that their iCloud system, which was believed to be the platform that hackers use to the breach, was not compromised.
"A malicious user [may have] repeatedly guessed passwords on Apple's Find my iPhone service without alerting the user or locking out the attacker," according to Owen Williams of the tech news site The Next Web.
The Apple statement read:
"We wanted to provide an update to our investigation into the theft of photos of certain celebrities. When we learned of the theft, we were outraged and immediately mobilized Apple's engineers to discover the source. Our customers' privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. After more than 40 hours of investigation, we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet. None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple's systems including iCloud or Find my iPhone. We are continuing to work with law enforcement to help identify the criminals involved."
Shortly after the news of nude photos of the Hunger Games star, one man immediately became a person of interest. Bryan Hamade of Lawrenceville Georgia as suspected as the man behind the Jennifer Lawrence Leaked Nude Photos because of his post on photo-sharing site Imgur. According to netizens, he first posted the photos on 4Chan. There, the 27-year old who is believed to be working as server admin, posted a screenshot of his computer's leaked picture folder. Users were able to catch his screenshot and instantly tagged him as th suspect. However, in an interview with Buzzfeed, he denied all the allegations about Jennifer Lawrence Leaked Nude Photos that puts him in bad light.
"I am not behind this. It was so stupid - I saw a lot of people posting the actual leaks and bitcoin addresses and I've read a lot about bitcoin and how they are valuable and I thought, Oh cool I'll get free bitcoins," he told BuzzFeed.
"I am just an idiot who tried to pull one over on 4chan and lost big time and stupidly left this identifying information. They took my proof and back traced it - it isn't remotely true. I am not a hacker. I have no idea how the hell someone could hack into all those accounts," he said.
