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Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A man was arrested after trying to sell Hollywood movie scripts and social security numbers to an undercover DHS agent. The hacker known online as Jeff Moxey managed to hack the computers of 130 celebrities, from where he stole, besides scripts, nude pics and sexually-explicit videos. "The scope of the crime here is potentially quite large," Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristy Greenberg said, adding that the investigation began a few weeks ago.
Why do celebrities, who literally have a portion of their trade tied-up in appearance and being desired, record sexual materials to devices that they don't fully understand the workings of? While it's not right for individuals to breach their accounts to copy their pictures, it is a known behavior that some people will do, and as it's a known danger it's the individual's responsibility to take steps to prevent this. If the technology of using Internet-connected devices and Internet services isn't understood, then the only solution is to avoid using Internet-connected devices. Use friggin' offline digital cameras if you want your naughty pictures, or go even more old-school and use an instant film camera.
There have been examples when "share my day" services for social media sites have shared naked pictures, publicly, automatically, as a matter of course. The settings of the phone's application were to share a sample of pictures automatically. That's STUPID.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Right outta Hitchcock
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Will be on indefinite hold while the owner starts a kickstart campaign for upstart cash and bail.
Yeah, pics or it didn't happen.
Where he went wrong was he got greedy.
If he had just dumped them online, instead of trying to make a profit, then he likely wouldn't have been caught.
Now he's in jail, and the data is gone. Thanks a lot, asshole.
Why the hell would DHS being involved? This seems more like an FBI thing. I don't exactly understand how this is a homeland security issue.
$50 says he gets at least twice the sentence he had gotten for hacking into medical data of a million people.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
> Just ignore those two million target customers
Ignore it, rather than thoroughly investigating and catching the perpetrators like they did? I don't know about the outcome in every single case, but I have researched and written about Target and TJ Maxx. Those feds did their job. Several federal agencies and some state are very active in investigating the types of cases you mentioned. Also, I've spoken to the FBI team primarily interested in what seem to be small-time attacks, who track patterns of malware on consumer desktops etc. If you let them know about attacks you have experienced you may not personally hear back a out the prosecution, but they do include your report in their investigation of trends.
The gift that says "I love you".
I was initially looking at Fitbits and Android based devices, but these are ugly and not special. They just mean nothing.
For this Christmas, I recommend "Apple Watch", if you care about someone special.
Good idea! That way she gets to see your message every day when she charges it. Or even more often, if she actually uses it.
Until the new version comes out in a few months, and you'll bend over and fork $500 more to buy it, and hers ends up in a landfill in a third world country.