The FBI is investigating the hacking to an Apple service

Began the week and "suburban" pockets of Internet, those who are far from the downtown lights of massive social networks, someone began circulating a photo. It was a female nude, home, lacking any professional production and Photoshop, and the woman in question was a famous Hollywood, or much like it. Soon, by the same slums of the global network, another picture appeared similar characteristics. What was happening? Were they real images or gross tweaks?

Victoria Justice, one of the famous involved, reacted quickly and said via Twitter that showed snapshots were false. But Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, among others, directly or through legal representatives, came to confirm that the images were real, and that had been stolen from them. 

Few hours passed until the matter was already "the" topic in Facebook and other massive spaces. The FBI took action because the violations of the privacy of women known to the film industry and the music seemed to have a large scale, and a hacker had threatened to disseminate intimate photos of about one hundred public figures. 

It should not be long before it was known that the epicenter of the privacy violations was iCloud, Apple service that provides users of computers, phones and tablets online storage space. 

The company's bitten apple admitted that some of its users to fame had been attacked, but were individual cases. A hacker would have tried to enter the accounts of some celebrities and had managed to guess your passwords and other security credentials. 

However, other versions indicated that the assault on private materials would have occurred because someone had been exploiting a vulnerability, a flaw in the security system of iCloud; in fact, some specialized sites gave some technical details about this supposed "hole." 

Next consulted, Cristian Borghello, computer security specialist and creator of specialized theme Segu-Info site, considered feasible both. "The tool that would have been used to exploit a vulnerability in iCloud was published on the web for several hours, and apparently it worked," said the expert. 

However, Borghello tends to believe the official statements from Apple, according to which the attacks were concentrated in only a handful of famous people who used keys easy to guess or deduce. 

The digital security specialist says that in addition to paying little attention to choosing a strong password, many users of the services that store information on the Internet does not take into account that these systems stored in "the cloud" all the photos and videos register with phones or tablets, and they do it without asking, automatically, if so configured. 

"And once a photo, video or any other digital material uploaded to the Internet, was no longer under our control; the convenience of having information accessible from any computer, at any time has this other side, "explains Borghello.