The worst celebrity hacks

guest · Oct 22, 2021

The worst celebrity hacks
From Lady Gaga to Barack Obama and intimate photo leaks to Bitcoin scams, celebrities are big targets for hacking
October 21, 2021
https://blog.avast.com/hacked-celebrities

“I got hacked!” Every time a celebrity gets caught posting something they shouldn’t, we hear this common refrain. But sometimes, they actually do get hacked — and the consequences can be disastrous. From intimate photo leaks and extortion attempts to using multiple celebrity accounts to scam others, let’s look at several of the worst celebrity hacks to show you how they happened and examine the fallout.
The celebs want your Bitcoin
In 2020, a small team of teenage hackers hijacked 130 high-profile Twitter accounts — including some of the platform’s most-followed celebrities such as Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and Bill Gates — to carry out a Bitcoin scam over the popular social network. The attack netted the hackers over $110,000 in Bitcoin within just a few minutes.
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Lawyers to the stars get hacked
Celebrity law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, which counts among its clients such A-listers as Madonna, Lil Nas X, Robert De Niro, and LeBron James, recently found itself on the receiving end of a massive hack.
In May 2020, the noted hacking collective REvil — also known as Sodinokibi and one of the world’s most dangerous hacking groups — claimed to have stolen over 750 GB of contracts, emails, NDAs, and other sensitive data.
Radiohead hack themselves
What would you do if a hacker stole a bunch of your private data, then threatened to release it unless you paid them a $150,000 ransom? If you’re Radiohead, you simply release the stolen material yourself.
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Jeff Bezos gets phished
Even Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man, isn’t immune to hacking. In 2018, Bezos received a video sent from the WhatsApp account of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
When Bezos opened the video file, his phone immediately began transmitting gigabytes of data — reportedly including photos of Bezos, then still married, with his girlfriend.
2014 iCloud sensitive photo leaks
The vilest kind of hackers delight in causing harm. In a series of wide-ranging hacks known as The Fappening or Celebgate, many celebrities — mostly women — found their most intimate photos freely available on the internet.
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Floyd 57 · Oct 22, 2021

The vilest kind of hackers delight in causing harm. In a series of wide-ranging hacks known as The Fappening or Celebgate, many celebrities — mostly women — found their most intimate photos freely available on the internet.
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