Experts investigate possible Apple flaw in celeb hacking

The stars are striking back against the leaker who allegedly shared nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities.

Blond bombshell Kate Upton was the latest to authenticate that she was included in the nude photo leak of dozens of celebrities — apparently including Kirsten Dunst, Selena Gomez, and Kim Kardashian — vowing through a spokesman to prosecute those who released or shared the racy pics.

“This is obviously an outrageous violation of our client Kate Upton’s privacy,” attorney Lawrence Shire told Us Weekly. “We intend to pursue anyone disseminating or duplicating these illegally obtained images to the fullest boundary possible.”

A representative for Jennifer Lawrence called the violation of the star’s privacy “barefaced” in a statement.

“The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence,” it said.A spokeswoman from the FBI declined to say whether the outfit was investigating, though it has looked into previous celebrity leaks.

No one stepped forward to take responsibility for the leak, but amateur Internet sleuths claimed they’d traced the photos to a Georgia software engineer, according to Buzzfeed.

He maintained his innocence.

Rabbani and Solimene Photography/Getty Images Kirsten Dunst is apparently among the celebrities whose nude pictures were hacked.

The breach could be linked to an alleged flaw in Apple’s “Find my iPhone” app, according to The Next Web. The app allows users multiple login attempts without getting locked out after a certain amount of incorrect tries, potentially allowing hacker programs that repeatedly try different passwords to access another person’s iCloud account.

Earlier on Monday, Ricky Gervais took heat for a note that appeared to place some of the blame on the victims of the breach.

“Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on your computer,” read a tweet sent from his account on Monday afternoon.

But many took to the Internet to defend the disrobed stars, arguing that the “victim-blaming” was similar to the way victims of sexual assaults and rape have historically been blamed.

“Seriously, do not forget that the person who stole these pictures and leaked them is not a hacker: they’re a sex offender,” Lena Dunham tweeted on Monday. “The ‘don’t take naked pics if you don’t want them online’ argument is the ‘she was wearing a fleeting skirt’ of the web. Ugh,” she later wrote.

Gervais’ Tweet was later deleted.

A list pulled from social media that has URLs of where the images can be seen. Celebrities have come out saying searching for the nude photos makes Internet users complicit in the crime.

Many took aim at those who shared the pics, such as celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who had published some of the uncensored photos on his blog, before removing them and apologizing.

“Sharing these images is…an act of sexual violation, and it deserves the same social and legal punishment as meted out to stalkers and other sexual predators,” wrote columnist
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