A spokesman for Jennifer Lawrence, of Hunger Games fame, said they contacted the authorities and would prosecute anyone who posts the stolen images. Usually we made the news, but at that point we’d become the news, said Tom Latchem, the News of the World’s TV editor. 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. A few of the celebrities have confirmed (or denied then later confirmed) the authenticity of the pictures. He abruptly shut the paper down and sacked most of the 200 staff. On the other hand, it seems unlikely (albeit not inconceivable) that unauthorized access could get into Apple’s iCloud and pick through over 100 accounts. She stated that the pictures of her were removed from her device “long ago.” With Photo Stream, the pictures remain on iCloud and on device back-ups even after they are deleted off the device.
The World points strongly to the idea that at least some photos resided on a server, not a device. On one hand, a particular tweet from Mary Winstead, star of Scott Pilgrim vs. Damages totalling nearly £1.25m have been awarded to eight people whose phones were hacked by Mirror Group journalists writing celebrity stories. Some security folks started picking at what data they had on hand about the pictures, and everything is a theory at the moment.
