American billionaire and Amazon owner Jeff Bezos has been the victim of hacker attacks after receiving a video file from the personal account of Crown Prince Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Salman. Which celebrities have been the victims of a similar attack?
According to The Guardian, Bezos received a message from the Crown Prince through WhatsApp. In the next few hours, a large amount of data was extracted from the Bezos phone, and the results of the forensic analysis showed that this extraction was most likely triggered by a video from the bin Salman report.
Recordings that shouldn't have come out
Last June, an unknown hacker stole 18 hours of previously unknown records from the 1990s from Radiohead's vocalist Thom Yorke and allegedly demanded a ransom of $ 150,000 for not publishing them.
However, in response to the threat, the band posted on Bandcamp, where they can listen to them for free, or buy ecological activists from the Extinction Rebellion group, who blocked their traffic in London for several days in April with their protests.
Zuckerberg doesn't change his password
Social networking gurus and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has also suffered from a lack of security. In 2016, hackers broke his Twitter and Pinterest accounts. A group of cybercriminals, known as OurMine, came forward to attack.
In 2012, according to Opendatasecurity.io, these hackers managed to obtain 117 million passwords from a professional LinkedIn network, including the Facebook founder password. They got into other Zuckerberg accounts because Zuckerberg apparently had the same password on them.
"Hello Mark, we're just testing your security, please write to us," the hackers said on Zuckerberg's social networks, where they even posted the password they had.
Interview with Kim Jongon
It is said that North Korea was behind this massive cyber attack. It is also said that it was because of the satirical film The Interview, which deals with North Korean leader Kim Jongon.
The Interview was produced by Sony. In November 2014, according to the BBC, hackers stole personal information from all its employees, as well as the content of e-mail conversations and up to five movies that were not released at the time.
Hackers, who call themselves the Guardians of Peace, have stolen, for example, addresses and phones from everyone involved in the film The Interview.
They also revealed names that celebrities use to protect their privacy: Tom Hanks, for example, introduces himself as Harry Lauder or Johnny Madrid, Sarah Michelle Gellar is Neely O’Hara, Daniel Craig is Olwen Williams.
Unintentionally shared personal photos
In 2014 there was a huge leak of intimate photos of famous people, dubbed "Celebgate". Photos leaked directly from Apple's iCloud cloud storage.
Hackers used iBrute, a so-called "brute force attack" that can be used to repeatedly attempt to crack an account password. For example, if a website is not protected by CAPTCHA, regular desktops can try over 100 million passwords per second using this method.
The attack was due to a security vulnerability in the "Search iPhone" application and due to the fact that iCloud did not prevent the blocking of accounts from which someone tried to sign in repeatedly.
Photos hacked anonymously published through 4chan and Reddit. Although the failure lasted only a few days, data theft affected as many as 300 million iCloud users, including celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande or Kaley Cuoc, and many others.
