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Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities (softpedia.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the crime-doesn't-pay dept.

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.

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  1. Security has not kept pace with technology by TWX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Security has not kept pace with technology by coolmoe2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well im sure the value of lets say Danny Trejo nudes is questionable at best

    2. Re:Security has not kept pace with technology by siphonophore · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This is a failure of industry, not a failure of individuals. Do we require drivers to be mechanics? Fliers to be aeronautical engineers?

      Starting from zero, it is astoundingly complicated to maintain personal information security--we don't see it like fish don't see water. Industry's response can't be to limit the market for connected devices to themselves.

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    3. Re:Security has not kept pace with technology by pr0fessor · · Score: 4, Funny

      I don't know it could replace the rickroll...

  2. Great headline there by fustakrakich · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right outta Hitchcock

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  3. The fappening part two by coolmoe2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will be on indefinite hold while the owner starts a kickstart campaign for upstart cash and bail.

  4. Re:Just... by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, pics or it didn't happen.

  5. FBI was all over Target, perpetrators in prison by raymorris · · Score: 4, Informative

    > 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.