Lending further credence to the theory was that a mix of file formats and data remnants from variety of software and cyber lockers like Dropbox were contained in the picture cache. This version of events explains why some of the nude celeb images were dated as far back as 2011 and others were taken just last month. The Register understands the photos would have remained off the public radar, if it weren't for a dump on 4Chan public forums by a new member who bought his way into a secret circle and tried to cash out by offering the photos for sale.īefore this week's exposure, the celeb pics - dubbed 'wins' by members - were quietly traded inside the group, according to this theory. The Register has inquired among Google and Microsoft folk regarding evidence of targeted attacks against celebs using their services. Hackers used brute-force password guessing against iCloud accounts which Apple overnight confirmed had occurred on a limited basis, among other techniques, to harvest the data. The photos were, according to one rumour investigated by The Register, stolen from various cloud backup accounts linked to Apple iPhones, Google Android devices and Windows phones. Rather than a single iCloud hack, this week's furore over celebrity nude pics looks more like the work of one or many "secret circles" of hackers whose members mingle on anarchic messageboard 4Chan to share their digital loot from computers and phones they've cracked over a period of years.
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