Excitement associated with hackers stealing nude photos of celebrities from the cloud service iCloud, has led to a serious malfunction of the largest Internet service provider in New Zealand. Troubleshoot possible only on the second day.
As reported by the New Zealand edition of New Zealand Herald, links with candid shots of Hollywood actresses "brought down" the Internet in the country. The largest provider of Spark New Zealand, which provides internet services around 600 000 inhabitants of New Zealand, has ceased to function in the night of September 6, as users tried to open links with intimate photographs of American celebrities. It is noted that the reference was the fake led to the installation of malware onto computers.
Attackers took advantage of the excitement and put a fake on your website. Customers click on some especially candid shots, infected with a malicious program, which is then carried out with their computers DDoS-attacks.
Hackers posted a net candid photos of actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, Teresa Palmer, models Kate Upton, Bar Refaeli, Olympic Champion Cup Hope Solo and many other stars on 1 September. Affair of the stolen iPhone with American stars photographs was engaged in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, meanwhile, denied the existence of vulnerabilities in the services of the company, through whose fault supposedly there was a mass leak intimate photos. Summing up "more than 40 hours" of the internal investigation, the manufacturer of the iPhone and iPad announced that iCloud and Find My Phone have not been compromised, and private shots of celebrities had been stolen as a result of targeted hacking individual accounts.
After the incident, Apple promised to take measures in order to strengthen the protection of iCloud. In particular, now the company will notify users by e-mail, and by means of push-notifications about trying to change the password to the accounts, to restore data to a new device, or when a device is first connected to the account. Earlier notification about data recovery iCloud not dispatched.