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"Thanks (or no thanks, really, because this is all sorts of gross) to an apparent security flaw in Apple&amp;#039;s iCloud remote storage system, hackers have reportedly accessed over 100 celebrities&amp;#039; nude photos \u2014 102 and counting, if current lists of those caught up in the scandal are to be believed. As Gawker notes, a poster at infamous Internet forum 4chan promised last week that oh-so-scandalous pictures would emerge Sunday night; lo and behold, they did. At least, some of them did. Those cataloging the photos, because of course people are, include the following potentially* exposed celebs:  Jennifer Lawrence (and, arguably, J.Law&amp;#039;s best friend too) Ariana Grande Kate Upton (and Upton&amp;#039;s boyfriend, baseball player Justin Verlander, whose bare butt appears in at least one photo) Lea Michele Victoria Justice Kaley Cuoco Glee&amp;#039;s Becca Tobin Downton Abbey&amp;#039;s Jessica Brown Findlay McKayla Maroney Kirsten Dunst Brie Larson Teresa Palmer Aubrey Plaza Mary Elizabeth Winstead  *Mass debates are currently raging as to whether many of these images are legit.  That said, three celebs, or their legal representatives, have confirmed that &amp;quot;their&amp;quot; leaked photos are the real, naked deal. Here&amp;#039;s Jennifer Lawrence&amp;#039;s rep, in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, among other outlets: &amp;quot;This is a flagrant violation of privacy. The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence.&amp;quot;  And here&amp;#039;s Kate Upton&amp;#039;s rep, in a similarly outraged statement to The Daily Mail: &amp;quot;This is obviously an outrageous violation of our client Kate Upton&amp;#039;s privacy [and] we intend to pursue anyone disseminating or duplicating these illegally obtained images to the fullest extent possible.&amp;quot;  Meanwhile, actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead took to Twitter:    To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves. \u2014 Mary E. Winstead (@M_E_Winstead) August 31, 2014      Knowing those photos were deleted long ago, I can only imagine the creepy effort that went into this. Feeling for everyone who got hacked. \u2014 Mary E. Winstead (@M_E_Winstead) August 31, 2014   Among the celebs listed at 4chan whose photos haven&amp;#039;t leaked yet (but might) are Kim Kardashian, Farrah Abraham, Rihanna, Hilary Duff, Selena Gomez, Cara Delevingne, Hayden Panettiere, and one guy, literally one guy, Dave Franco, who apparently appears in a nude shot with Alison Brie. Gawker reports that TMZ has attempted to buy &amp;quot;a trove&amp;quot; of photos, noting a tweet that says the site offered &amp;quot;six figures&amp;quot; for some pics, and also a 4chan posting, apparently from the original hacker, which reads &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d rather you get them than TMZ.&amp;quot; TMZ has not yet commented on this rumor. 4chan is a wild and nefarious part of the Internet that I can&amp;#039;t even pretend to understand; a cursory visit this morning (I clicked through 10 pages of the site&amp;#039;s /b/ forum, where the celebrity nudes began being uploaded last night) yielded nudes both male and female, strange memes, lots of people throwing racial and homophobic slurs at each other/the world, and, oh, this request, which is SFW and yet still sums up the rampant messiness quite well:  It&amp;#039;s worth noting the authenticity of much (i.e. just about everything, including this mayo raccoon scene request above) posted on 4chan is up for the debate \u2014 at least so far, only Lawrence, Upton, and Winstead have confirmed that their pictures are legitimate, as noted above. Other celebrities and their representatives are denying the photos are for real, like Victoria Justice:    These so called nudes of me are FAKE people. Let me nip this in the bud right now. *pun intended* \u2014 Victoria Justice (@VictoriaJustice) August 31, 2014   And Ariana Grande, whose publicist told BuzzFeed the photos are &amp;quot;completely fake.&amp;quot; A screencapped tweet reportedly from Ariana herself added that &amp;quot;my petite ass is much cuter than that.&amp;quot; That tweet does not appear on Grande&amp;#039;s Twitter feed currently however, and so it could also prove to be a fake. Because just about everyone posting on the site remains anonymous, copycat hackers are now reposting all sorts of real/fake images. Many are promising further leaks if people are prepared to pay up, which muddies the already muddy waters. In the same vein, some 4chan posters claim to have identified the hacker \u2014 based upon computer server and network details identifiable on desktop screenshots taken of the apparently original photo collection. But then others disagree; everything is gospel but nothing is for real. &amp;quot;No one hacks, steals or in some other way buys high-profile nude pictures of 30 A/B-list celebrities and doesn&amp;#039;t anonymise properly when posting them,&amp;quot; argues one.  Regardless, the momentous event is already being nicknamed &amp;quot;The Fappening,&amp;quot; because to &amp;quot;fap,&amp;quot; in Internet lingo, is to enjoy some self-pleasure. And many of the posters at 4chan (as well as in subforums across Reddit and beyond) are more than happy to acknowledge that&amp;#039;s all they&amp;#039;ll be doing this Labor Day. Happy holidays, people! Update, 5:20 p.m. One of the many questions that has come up since a hacker managed to access the iClouds of more than 100 celebrities, leaking the stars&amp;#039; nude photos for all the world to see, is: What was the security flaw in Apple&amp;#039;s iCloud that allowed a hacker to do this? According to The Huffington Post, the social coding site Github was likely the first to identify the bug, known as &amp;quot;ibrute,&amp;quot; which allows hackers to exploit a loophole in Apple&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Find My iPhone&amp;quot; service. The problem was that Apple&amp;#039;s service didn&amp;#039;t employ so-called &amp;quot;brute force protection,&amp;quot; which meant that anyone who wanted to break into a person&amp;#039;s iCloud could repeatedly enter a large number of passwords without fear of being locked out, according to The Next Web.  An anonymous coder called HackApp, who says he or she has no connection to the celebrity scandal of this weekend but claims to have discovered the hack, says the bug appears to be fixed. As HuffPo reports, The Next Web actually tested the &amp;quot;Find My iPhone&amp;quot; service to find out, and was indeed locked out of it after five attempts at entering a password. Apple has not commented on this particular bug but told Re/code that the company is &amp;quot;actively investigating&amp;quot; the problem.  Update, 5:40 p.m. Reddit users identified a 27-year-old Georgia man as the hacker, using a screenshot he posted to 4chan to do some sleuthing (the screenshot was allegedly of the leaked pictures folder). Only now that man has come forward to say that he has nothing to do with the crime; he was merely trying to scam 4chan users out of bitcoins. He told Buzzfeed: I am not behind this. It was so stupid \u2014 I saw a lot of people posting the actual leaks and bitcoin addresses and I&amp;#039;ve read a lot about bitcoin and how they&amp;#039;re are valuable and I thought, oh cool I&amp;#039;ll get free bit coins. I am just an idiot who tried to pull one over on 4chan and lost big time and stupidly left this identifying information. They took my proof and back traced it \u2014 it isn&amp;#039;t remotely true. I am not a hacker. I have no idea how the hell someone could hack into all those accounts.  This post will be updated with more information as it breaks. Follow Alex on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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