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The Sun revealed how private photographs of Emma Watson were leaked online, with claims the haul included nude images.. Mischa Barton. The O.C. star was at the centre of a sex tape scandal after ...
Rihanna had nude images leaked online in 2009. She said it was "the worst thing that could possibly ever happen to me. ... Scarlett Johansson, 32, was hacked in 2011, and photos intended for her ...
- 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 ...
Aug 31, 2014 · A leak that started as the latest round of personal pictures hacked from celebrities' phones turned into a vast invasion of the privacy of actress Jennifer Lawrence and a handful of others — and a kind of festival on Reddit, 4chan, and other online spaces — with continued releases of pictures and video purporting to be taken from stars including Lawrence, Kate Upton, Lea Michele, and more.
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Sep 1, 2014 · Updated August 31, 2014. More than 100 celebrities hacked, nude photos leaked. Update: The FBI has issued a statement on the matter. Celebrities including Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence were the ...
Sep 21, 2014 · 19. Hope Solo. Olympic soccer player Hope Solo was another new victim in the photos leaked on 4chan and Reddit. She has not released a statement. 20. Lake Bell. “Boston Legal” actress Lake ...
