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Do it yourself."Īfter discovering the iCloud account of a celebrity, it's trivially easy to access their online photo backup through Apple's Photo Stream utility and iCloud photo backups. Jennifer Lawrence is known to use iCloud after she let slip in a red carpet interview with MTV this year that she frequently has trouble with the service, remarking "My iCloud keeps telling me to back it up, and I'm like, I don't know how to back you up.

UPDATE: Apple has patched a security flaw in iCloud that could have been used to hack celebrity accounts.

Instead the photos most likely emerged due to a type of hacking known as "social engineering." This exploit works by learning which online services your target uses, and then compiling as much data on them as possible before using that data to either spoof access, or to simply use their email address and a guessed password to log in to their account. It's unlikely that someone has broken into Apple's iCloud service.

The original leaker behind the celebrity photos claimed that they accessed the images using the iCloud accounts of various celebrities.