A few days ago we woke up with new cases of what is known as celebrategate, a hack into celebrity accounts in order to get compromised material from them and then try to blackmail celebrities in exchange for not filtering compromising photos. An episode that has already occurred on other occasions leading to the massive filtering of photographs of famous men and women nudes.
And it is that although we have secure devices, no one assures us that these are not vulnerable, digital devices or services rather since it is more frequent that hackers manage to access the databases of digital services and thus steal users and passwords. And a new service joins the controversy, and joins for everything great ... And it is that Instagram just alerted its "high profile" users so that they change their passwords because a group of hackers could have compromised your phone numbers and emails… After the jump we give you all the details of this new celebrategate...
The problem is even greater since hackers would have accessed the emails and phone numbers of famous Instagram accounts, something quite worrying ... And this after knowing that they had leaked pics of Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber naked, although it is true that both problems should not be linked.
A problem that could come from various bugs in the Instagram API, bugs that would not have been closed and that consequently the group of hackers would have found. We will continue to monitor all these security problems that digital services are having, I am sure there will be a Important mention of security in the next Keynote from Apple. A quite controversial issue without a doubt, the best thing you can do is try not to have compromising photographs on your devices ...
