The world has put last year's hack of iCloud accounts behind it, but for Kris Jenner, the incident seems to still be happening, as she says a hacker is blackmailing her with private videos that were stolen from Apple.
Details are scarce at the moment: they are set to be revealed in season 10 of the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
According to TMZ, which learned of the alleged blackmail from an inside source, Kris Jenner has confided in her family that she is the victim of a hacker who has videos of herself naked and recorded by home surveillance cameras. She has reportedly filed a complaint with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office regarding the matter.
celeb hack , dubbed "The Fappening," exposed private images of several celebrities on anonymous image boards, while some even created separate websites that offered access to the private content stolen from iCloud.
Due to a major security flaw, someone who knew the victim's name could run a brute-force attack on the iCloud log-in page to learn the corresponding password. Only users with two-factor (2FA) would be protected against this attack.
Until more details emerge, we can only speculate about how the hackers managed to gain access to users' personal data. Many may think that Jenner's story sounds a bit strange and that it is nothing more than a stunt to promote her show, because the data from the incident was uploaded from an iDevice.
However, there are apps that can upload video from IP cameras directly to someone's iCloud, which could have been compromised.
One of these has some limitations, however, and supports a total of three IP cameras, whose video stream can be automatically uploaded to Apple's cloud and can be monitored from a mobile device.
On the other hand, many users fail to implement secure access to surveillance cameras and retain the default certifications from the manufacturer, making the hardware accessible from the internet.
This would be unlikely in Jenner's case, but a phishing tricking the user into providing the log-in details for the IP camera's management console is a possible possibility.
