The best thing ordinary people can do easily to protect themselves from similar hacks is to put on two-factor authentication on your accounts like Gmail and Apple does, Ackerman said. Weve all read about the hack that exposed intimate photos from celebrities Kate Upton, Jennifer Lawrence, and many others on the anonymous image board. He added that in the case of this leak, it was more than likely committed by more than one hacker, and was a group looking to 'make a big splash.' 'If (hackers are) not looking for it, less so really.' There's a chance anything you put up in the cloud, it's available in some way,' Ackerman said. 'If you think about it, you have multiple copies (of your data). Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton was also hacked and confirmed through a rep that the photos of her were legitimate.ĭan Ackerman, a senior editor at CBS News partner CNET, told 'CBS This Morning,' that everyone's cloud-stored digital information is vulnerable, though celebrities are more vulnerable because hackers are actively looking for their data. Nickelodeon actress and singer Victoria Justice, 21, took to Twitter and wrote, 'These so called nudes of me are FAKE people,' reports CBS Los Angeles.ĬBS Los Angeles also reported singer Ariana Grande's rep said nude photos of Grande are also fakes.
