2. 2014 iCloud Leak
In the biggest hack related entry on this list, nearly 500 nude photos of several celebrities were posted online in the summer of 2014. The hackers apparently took advantage of a security issue or breach in the iCloud API that allowed the hackers to make unlimited attempts to guess the passwords of celebrities. In what the media would dub “The Fappening”, a wide array of celebrities had their privacy invaded and pictures exposed. The leak was mostly comprised of female stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Jill Scott, and others. You name any celebrity and it’s likely that they were affected. The scary part about all of this was that so many celebrities were hacked that it even had all of us regular folk shaken and worried as to where we should store all of our private information. If our most private files weren’t safe in the iCloud, where could they be safe?
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