Celebrities do suffer from their fame. There are no shortage of stories about celebrities accounts being hacked online or their phones being stolen and hacked. They need to deal with sex tape leaks, nude photo leaks, other indecent photo leaks, damaging recordings etc.
A celebrity sex tape is typically an amateur pornographic video recording involving one or more celebrities which has, intentionally or unintentionally, been made available publicly. Such video tapes are often released without the consent of their subjects, and could potentially damage celebrities’ careers. In 1988, a sex tape caused significant damage to Rob Lowe‘s career.
Kim Kardashian West was victim to a sex tape leak in 2007 when her former boyfriend Ray J sold it and shared it online. However later that year was when Keeping Up With The Kardashians debuted on our screens. The reality TV star was as glorified socialite before the release of her tape and it made her family show on E as popular as it was.
Paris Hilton suffered a leak around the same time as the Simple Life debuted. Socialite Paris Hilton has had to develop a thick skin over the years. You might recall that the 1st sex tape leaked of her was when she was a teen. She filmed a sex tape with her then-boyfriend, Rick Salomon, which went viral back in 2004. She later sued him for leaking it and has always denied rumors that she’d consented to the leak in order to gain publicity for her reality TV show. “people want to be mean, that’s their problem. It used to be really hurtful. I would call and cry to my mom all the time but now I just laugh.” – Paris Hilton.
Now don’t confuse me. I’m not saying that these celebrities have actually planned their hack. I actually genuinly feel sorry for these celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence. On August 31, 2014, a collection of almost 500 private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, and with many containing nudity, were posted on the imageboard 4chan, and later disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur, Reddit and Tumblr. The images were believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple’s cloud services suite iCloud. Apple later confirmed that the hackers responsible for the leak had obtained the images using a “very targeted attack” on account information, such as passwords, rather than any specific security vulnerability in the iCloud service itself.
This event, trended on twitter using #Celebgate” and #TheFappening“. A lot of people criticized the authenticity of the images, others felt that the distribution was a major privacy invasion. Worldwide however, the main concern was how safe iCloud computing actually was. Sara Angeles, staff writer from the Business news daily outlines 8 reasons why businesses should be petrified about using the cloud. As if Jason Segel & Cameron Diaz hadn’t scared us enough!!!
Cyberattacks should be people’s main problem with the cloud. Anyone anywhere can hack anything that is stored anywhere on the internet. Angeles also points out legal liability and government intrusion along with 5 other very crucial pit falls of the cloud. The Cloud does have its vulnerabilities, so how about phone hacking??
Phone hacking to me feels more invasive. With how too guides sprawled around the internet, everybody can act like John Reese, from Person of Interest.. hmmmmm.
In the show, they target and bug people by being in a close enough vicinity and engaging in using a hacking programme. Once successfully hacked they can listen to voice mails, read messages, listen to phone conversations and edit and recieve your texts.
I have looked at celeb photo hacking, and leaking. iCould sharing and oversharing. Video tapes and viral video leaks and phone hacking. These are only but a few means that people use to divuldge more information/money/pain/suffering out of their subjects of interest.
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