Apple's cloud storage system, iCloud is one of the safest in the world, but like everything else, it can have a security breach that certain people, lovers of other people's things, take advantage of to make their fortune selling compromised stolen data such as photographs, videos or confidential information of people of great importance.
As you may already know, in 2014 a user in Connecticut "allegedly" infiltrated the Apple system on certain celebrity accounts managing to obtain multimedia material that he illegally shared on the Internet.
George Garafano, the Connecticut man who stole images and videos from the iCloud cloud of certain celebrities has been sentenced to eight months in prison for his active role in the 2014 iCloud hacks that resulted in thousands of people saw many illicitly shared celebrity photos on the internet.
Garafano was accused of hacking into the iCloud accounts of more than 200 people over the course of 18 months, including those of various celebrities.
In April, Garafano pleaded guilty to sending phishing emails to its victims posing as a member of Apple's online security team to obtain usernames and passwords. During the case, prosecutors said that He swapped the photos he stole with other hackers and sold some of them for additional income.
Prosecutors argued that Garafano should serve 10 to 16 months in prison, while Garafano requested a five-month prison sentence, followed by five months of confinement at home.
Garafano, who was in college at the time, says he has already suffered from his role in the 2014 hacking event and has "cleaned up his act" since the hacking happened. There were a total of four people charged with breaking into celebrity accounts of iCloud, including Ryan Collins, Edward Majerczyk, and Emilio Herrera, along with Garafano. The other hackers have already been sentenced to prison terms ranging from nine months to 18 months.
When hundreds of nude celebrity photos began leaking onto the internet in 2014, there was initial speculation that iCloud had been hacked, but after an investigation, Apple determined that the accounts had been compromised by weak passwords.
Since then, Apple has improved its iCloud security by adding two-factor authentication to iCloud.com, presenting email alerts when an iCloud account is accessed on the web, and requiring application-specific passwords for third-party applications that access it. to iCloud.