Man Arrested for Stealing Photos of the Royal Family
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 09/26/2016 08:25 AM
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Nathan Wyatt was arrested on suspicion of violating the Computer Misuse Act, the act which governs hacking and computer exploitation.
He is accused of hacking into Pippa Middleton's iCloud account, stealing 3,000 photos and offering to sell them on the web.
Pippa Middleton is the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge. The 3,000 photos were being sold for £50,000. They were being offered to The Sun and The Daily Mail via the encrypted messaging app, WhatsApp. The photos included images of the Royal Family, naked photo of Middleton's fiancé, James Matthews as well as the personal phone numbers of William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Mark James, security specialist at ESET said that while back up features of the iCloud are incredibly useful, “this leads to another problem, your security as always is in the hands of others. Apple will of course do all they possibly can to protect your data but you are responsible to help them with that task. Ensuring your password is fairly complex and definitely not used on any other site should be the basics. I appreciate it's hard to remember all those logins but with the plethora of password managers available these days, it is much easier to manage.”
Brian Spector, CEO of MIRACL commented: “Although this is another horrible invasion of celebrity privacy, maybe at least the hack of Pippa's iCloud account will remind the general public about the vulnerability of all our digital data.”
He added, “all users, celebrities or not, need to be aware of the value of their personal data on the web, and take steps to protect it."
Source: SCMagazine
He is accused of hacking into Pippa Middleton's iCloud account, stealing 3,000 photos and offering to sell them on the web. Pippa Middleton is the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge. The 3,000 photos were being sold for £50,000. They were being offered to The Sun and The Daily Mail via the encrypted messaging app, WhatsApp. The photos included images of the Royal Family, naked photo of Middleton's fiancé, James Matthews as well as the personal phone numbers of William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Mark James, security specialist at ESET said that while back up features of the iCloud are incredibly useful, “this leads to another problem, your security as always is in the hands of others. Apple will of course do all they possibly can to protect your data but you are responsible to help them with that task. Ensuring your password is fairly complex and definitely not used on any other site should be the basics. I appreciate it's hard to remember all those logins but with the plethora of password managers available these days, it is much easier to manage.”
Brian Spector, CEO of MIRACL commented: “Although this is another horrible invasion of celebrity privacy, maybe at least the hack of Pippa's iCloud account will remind the general public about the vulnerability of all our digital data.”
He added, “all users, celebrities or not, need to be aware of the value of their personal data on the web, and take steps to protect it."
Source: SCMagazine
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