‘Celebgate’ attack leaks nude photos of celebrities – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2018-08-30T19:46:20+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/5863348 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Bijan Stephen <![CDATA[Another one of Jennifer Lawrence’s hackers is going to prison]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17800896/jennifer-lawrence-hackers-prison-celebgate 2018-08-30T15:46:20-04:00 2018-08-30T15:46:20-04:00

George Garofano - one of the four hackers who stole and leaked celebrity nudes in the 2014 event that came to be known as Celebgate (and on 4chan as "The Fappening") - has been sentenced to eight months of prison time. Variety reports, he'll also face three years of supervised release and 60 hours of community service after he gets out. In total, Garofano hacked more than 250 people, including Kate Upton, Jennifer Lawrence, and Kirsten Dunst.

Three other hackers had already been sentenced for their roles in hacking the material that became Celebgate: Ryan Collins, 36, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to felony hack …

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]]> Adi Robertson <![CDATA[‘Celebgate’ hacker sentenced to 18 months in prison]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13453166/ryan-collins-celebgate-celebrity-photo-hacker-prison-sentence 2016-10-28T09:36:59-04:00 2016-10-28T09:36:59-04:00

Ryan Collins, one of the people behind the 2014 "Celebgate" photo leak, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Earlier this year, Collins pled guilty to carrying out a long-running phishing campaign that gave him access to dozens of private email and iCloud accounts, including those of many female celebrities, some of whom had nude photos leaked as a result of the breach.

Collins was convicted of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and faced up to five years in prison, although prosecutors recommended 18 months as part of a plea bargain. According to the Justice Department, he sent his targets emails purporting to come from Apple …

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]]> James Vincent <![CDATA[Hacker involved in ‘Celebgate’ pleads guilty, faces maximum five years in prison]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/4/12093088/icloud-celebrity-hacks-edward-majerczyk 2016-07-04T09:16:59-04:00 2016-07-04T09:16:59-04:00

A hacker has pleaded guilty for his role in the "Celebgate" breach of 2014. Edward Majerczyk faces up to five years in federal prison for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Like fellow hacker Ryan Collins, the 28-year-old Majerczyk used a phishing scam to trick celebrities into entering their online credentials into fake 'security' sites. Majerczyk then used this information to illegally access more than 300 personal Gmail and iCloud accounts, retrieving private photos and videos from targets including celebrities. No individuals affected by the hack were named in court documents.

"[he] not only hacked into e-mail accounts - he hacked …

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]]> Nick Statt <![CDATA[Pennslyvania man will plead guilty in ‘Celebgate’ nude photo hack]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/15/11241538/celebgate-hack-ryan-collins-guilty-apple-icloud 2016-03-15T19:02:48-04:00 2016-03-15T19:02:48-04:00

Ryan Collins, a 36-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of playing a key role in the "Celebgate" breach in 2014, will plead guilty to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which will mark the first conviction related to the high-profile hack. Collins spent roughly two years tricking victims online, some of which worked in Hollywood, into handing over sensitive data like email addresses and passwords by pretending to work for Apple and Google, according to federal prosecutors. Once inside the accounts, Collins was able to access full iCloud backups containing nude photos and videos. Photos from Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were include …

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]]> Rich McCormick <![CDATA[Emma Watson nude photo threats were apparently a plot to kill 4chan]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/24/6837585/emma-watson-nude-photo-threats-were-hoax-anti-4chan-campaign 2014-09-24T04:38:40-04:00 2014-09-24T04:38:40-04:00

Anonymous users of infamous web forum 4chan leaked stolen nude pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, and scores of other women on September 1st. Three weeks later, anonymous 4chan users threatened to do it again. Their new target would be Emma Watson, the actress best known for portraying teenage schoolgirl Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies.

This time, the anonymous figures appeared more organized. Shortly after the threats appeared online, someone set up a dedicated site - emmawatsonyouarenext.com - and started a countdown to the time and date that they would release the images. The countdown first pointed to …

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]]> Rich McCormick <![CDATA[Artist cancels exhibition of nude pictures stolen from Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6129275/artist-cancels-exhibition-nude-pics-jennifer-lawrence-kate-upton 2014-09-09T21:08:33-04:00 2014-09-09T21:08:33-04:00

Last week LA-based artist XVALA - real name Jeff Hamilton - announced he would display recently leaked naked pictures of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton as part of an upcoming art show he titled "No Delete." But now the artist has backtracked on his original decision, removing the pictures from his planned exhibit, and replacing them with life-size nude pictures of himself.

Hamilton said the public reaction to the leaked photos made him change his mind. "People were identifying with Jennifer Lawrence's and Kate Upton's victimization, much more than I had anticipated, which is powerfully persuasive." Hamilton's schedul …

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]]> Dante D'Orazio <![CDATA[Reddit shuts down subreddit tied to nude photos in ‘celebgate’ attack]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/7/6117145/reddit-shuts-down-thefappening-subreddit-tied-to-nude-photos 2014-09-07T10:37:55-04:00 2014-09-07T10:37:55-04:00

TheFappening, a new subreddit that became the unofficial hub for the cache of nude celebrity photos revealed last week, has been banned and shut down by Reddit. In a statement published on its official blog, a representative for the company said that "we deplore the theft of these images and we do not condone their widespread distribution." Visitors to the subreddit are now greeted with the warning image above.

After the initial leak of hundreds of nude celebrity photos online through 4Chan, TheFappening emerged as a distribution center for the stolen photos. Reddit has been silent on the matter for over a week, but now a lengthy post by a …

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]]> Casey Newton <![CDATA[On the internet, disaster is always one step ahead of you]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/5/6110575/on-the-internet-disaster-is-always-one-step-ahead-of-you 2014-09-05T11:53:24-04:00 2014-09-05T11:53:24-04:00

On Wednesday, following a flood of commentary on the theft of celebrities' nude photos, some corners of the web announced they'd had enough. John Herrman, writing in The Awl, ridiculed the surge in punditry as a cynical grab for page views. "A phenomenon like this generates an enormous surplus of attention, much more than news can meet," he wrote. "This throws the ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ industry into a frantic generative mode, initiating a full-spectrum stress test on par with a natural disaster or a war." Alex Pareene, following up on Andrew Sullivan's site, suggested most of these Celebgate "takes" were "produced solely in the hopes that the post will, t …

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]]> Rich McCormick <![CDATA[Tim Cook says Apple will send security alerts to help stop iCloud hackers]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/4/6108695/apple-tim-cook-says-will-send-security-alert-stop-icloud-hack-nude-celebrities 2014-09-04T22:51:01-04:00 2014-09-04T22:51:01-04:00

Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal today that his company is soon to introduce measures to protect iPad, iPhone, and Mac users' information and keep hackers out of their accounts. In two weeks time, Cook said users would start to receive emails and push notifications on mobile devices when iCloud data was restored, passwords changed, or when a new device logs into an account for the first time.

Cook's comments come after hundreds of photos of nude celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence and Ariana Grande, were leaked online. The pictures were reportedly obtained through Apple's iCloud service. The company has denied that priva …

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]]> Ben Popper <![CDATA[Inside the strange and seedy world where hackers trade celebrity nudes]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/4/6106363/celebgate-fappening-naked-nude-celebrities-hack-hackers-trade 2014-09-04T14:34:04-04:00 2014-09-04T14:34:04-04:00

When nude photos of more than 100 prominent celebrities began appearing on the internet over Labor Day weekend, people assumed that the leak was intentional: there was a hacker, or hackers, who were posting these images for fun or profit, and they had used recently discovered security flaws in Apple's iCloud system to break into accounts and make off with these pictures.

A glimpse into a world that prefers to stay hidden

But several deep dives by security researchers into the secretive online world of stolen nudes paints a very different picture. An underground trade in these high-profile images has been going on for years, and continues tod …

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