On August 31, 2014 almost two hundred private pictures of various celebrities, mostly females and many with nudity, were posted on 4chan and later on: reddit, anon-ib and tumblr, marking the beginning of the 2014 celebrity pictures hack. They were allegedly taken through an exploit of iCloud, to which iPhone photos can be automatically synced. The photographs were allegedly sold for bitcoin. According to Apple, the photos were not stolen through any breach in iCloud or Find My iPhone; rather, they were the result of targeted attacks on celebrity usernames and passwords. The event is widely known as The Fappening.
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