Hacked Celebrity Photos Online 2014: Unpublished Hacked Photos Selling for $350, or One Bitcoin
More than a month after celebrity photos were hacked and posted on a forum, a new set is being released -- and the photos are on sale for $350 -- or one bitcoin.
In late August, a list of 100 female celebrities, and one male, emerged as having their iCloud accounts hacked, including photos that had been deleted, CNN reported.
Since then there has been discussion about the actions, and of the guilt-by-association of viewers of the photos -- especially those which were nude photos.
The FBI was also investigating at the time, including two cases of child pornography.
Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Keegan and Kirsten Dunst were on the list of actresses who were hacked, but others, like gymnast McKayla Maroney and actress Bella Thorne, were underage when the photos were taken, so their photo hacks are being investigated separately, RT reported.
Lawrence was one of the more outspoken about the incident, and had told Vanity Fair that the hack and release of the photos was a sex crime, RT reported.
The new set of photos, which come from the original hack, are being sold on a real-time sharing site.
Volafile is the site people are going to to buy the photos for about $350, which is payable in bitcoin, RT reported.
Some videos are also available, The Daily Mail reported. The users uploading the photos and videos are getting appreciation and thanks from other users on the site through the chat function.
Business Insider contacted the sellers on the site and was able to obtain photos of the celebrities. This came after the writer contacted representatives of the celebrity -- previously unhacked Daisy Lowe -- and the Volafile site founder, RT reported.
Volafile then deleted the chat room where the photos were floating.
The hack by the "Original Guy," as the 4chan user is referred to in chats, was made possible by a combination of hacking and law enforcement tools.
The first is the Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker (EPPB) which lets law enforcement lift data from iPhones with ease. It was used by the hackers along with iBrute, a password-guessing software for iCloud, RT reported.
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