(CBS News)
There are lots of red faces in
Hollywood after a ring of hackers
stole naked images of at least 50
female celebrities from their cell
phones and computers, reports
CBS News correspondent Sandra
Hughes.
The victims are said to include A-
listers such as Scarlett Johansson,
Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera
and Miley Cyrus.
“Generally,” Us magazine News
Editor Natalie Thomas told CBS
News, “the community is worried
and scared and fearful.”
According to TMZ.com, former
“High School Musical” star
Vanessa Hudgens met with the
FBI Thursday to discuss nude
photos stolen from her e-mail
account.
And it’s not the first time her
privacy has been violated. Back in
2007, Hudgens’ files were
hacked and naked pictures
posted online. “This happened
years ago,” Thomas says, “where
the photos were released, and
she went through public
spectacle and embarrassment.
And it’s now happening again.”
Photos of Cyrus in compromising
positions were stolen and shared
on the web in 2008. And while
the FBI won’t reveal the depth of
its investigation, the [probe
allegedly includes singing
sensations Selena Gomez and
Demi Lovato.
The images show “private
moments exposed in very public
way,” Hughes points out, “and
no one knows who might be
next or where this will end.”
On “The Early Show on Saturday
Morning,” co-anchor Russ
Mitchell surmised, “The big
lesson here is don’t put this stuff
on your cell phone.” And cyber
safety expert and online privacy
and security lawyer Parry Aftab
agreed, saying, “The best advice
is don’t take the pictures if
they’re gonna get out there,
because you know they’re going
to get out there.
“It’s really not very hard at all” for
someone to hack into a cell
phone or computer, “because a
lot of (people) aren’t using the
security measures they need to.
They’re not using good
passwords. They don’t have the
good anti-virus (software) and
firewalls in place, and they have
their Bluetooth port open on the
cell phone. “
Aftab said the hackers prey in
particular on “the celebrities
everybody wants to see naked
pictures of. The younger they are,
the more popular they are, the
more those pictures can be sold
for. And they are just high-stake
rewards.”
How much money could the
thieves get for the images?
“Oh, I don’t know,” Aftab said.
“Hundreds of thousands of
dollars, probably. But what they
don’t realize is, when the kids are
under the age of 18, it’s child
pornography if the kids are
naked in a certain way, so they
can be charged with very serious
crimes and end up on the
registered sex offender list.”
Aftab represents a number of A-
list celebrities. She says her
clients don’t have that type of
material on their cell phones or
computers. “They keep them off,’
she said, “and I keep them as
secure as we can. And we work
very closely with a lot of the big
agencies and the financial firms
so that we protect them the
same way they protect them
offline. So whether they check
into a hotel under a pseudonym,
or when they’re traveling and
they have security guards we
need to do the same thing on all
of their digital devices.”
Nude cyber-images of some 50 female stars stolen.
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