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Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2020
Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online

Hackers have stolen naked photos and videos from hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities and leaked them online. Threat actors have stolen naked photos and videos from hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities and leaked them online. The attack took place in the same hours as hackers hit Manchester United and brings us back […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2019
Prosecutors ask 3-Year Sentence in ‘Fappening’ Case for ex-teacher

Fappening case – Federal prosecutors requested a 3-year prison sentence for a former Virginia high school teacher convicted of hacking into private digital accounts of celebrities and others. Federal prosecutors requested a 3-year prison sentence for Christopher Brannan(31), a former Virginia high school teacher, that was convicted of hacking into private digital accounts of celebrities […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2018
Fappening case – Another hacker who leaked celebrities naked photos was sentenced to 8 months in prison

Fappening – The hacker George Garofano (26) who leaked celebrities naked photos and attempted to trade them was sentenced to 8 months in prison The sentence for the fourth hacker involved in the leakage of celebrities naked photos, also known as the Fappening case, has arrived. George Garofano, 26, of North Branford, has been sentenced to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2018
Fappening – A fourth man has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities

Fappening – A fourth hacker, George Garofano (26), of North Branford, has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities. A fourth hacker, George Garofano (26), of North Branford, has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities. Garofano had been arrested by the FBI and a federal […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2017
Fappening 2.0 – More explicit pictures of celebrities leaked online

Fappening 2.0, Nude pictures of several celebrities have been leaked online, including Rose McGowan, Amanda Seyfried and Jillian Murray. Here we are speaking again of Fappening, new nude pictures of celebrities have been leaked online. In 2014 for the first time, several lots of private photographs of celebrities were leaked online, the phenomenon was dubbed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2016
Crime doesn’t pay, Fappening hacker gets 18 months in jail

The person behind the Fappening case, Ryan Collins (36), received a lighter penalty than the five years prison initially on the table for the guilty plea. Do you remember the Fappening case? In 2014, a cache of nude photos and videos of celebrities was leaked online, hackers have stolen them by accessing the iCloud accounts […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2016
Feds arrested hackers involved in the Fappening Hack Investigation

The FBI raided another the second home in Chicago to arrest the second alleged culprit in the Fappening hack Investigation. In 2014 an unknown hacker leaked online nude pictures of celebrities, including the popular and Kate Upton. We are speaking about the case known as The Fappening, the hacker took over a large number of Apple iCloud accounts, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2015
Another set of Kelly Brook’s Nude Pictures leaked online

Unknown hackers have leaked another set of Kelly Brook’s Nude Pictures online, this is the second time after the Fappening case of the last year. The Fappening cases are probably the most popular privacy breaches that are known to ordinary people, celebrities nude photo leaks are still circulating in the Internet and raised the discussion about security […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2015
Apple has patched the iCloud flaw exploited by iDict tool

Apple has patched the iCloud flaw exploited by iDict tool, the news was confirmed by the author of the hacking application via Twitter. Last week the iDict hacking tool has been released by a hacker known as Pr0x13, the expert posted the code of iDict on GitHub explaining that it is very easy to use and exploits a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2015
iDict, a tool that can break into any iCloud account is available online

iDict is the a hacking tool that was published on GitHub and that can break into any iCloud account running an Apple ID Dictionary attack. A hacker has released a tool called iDict that he sustains that could be used to break into any iCloud account. According to the expert, iDict implements an exploit that is able […]

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