With criminals socially-engineering phishing campaigns that seem more and more convincing, it’s becoming increasingly easy for clever threat actors to fool people into giving up credentials that put their hosted data at risk.

The case underscores the increased privacy risk people face when using cloud-based services from trusted partners like Apple to store personal images and other info online.

“I don’t even know who was involved,” Chi told the LA Times, according to the report. Hao Kuo Chi, 40, of La Puente, has agreed to plead guilty to four felonies, including conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to a computer, in a scam that ultimately aimed to steal and share nude images of young women, according to court records and a report by the Los Angeles Times.Ĭhi admitted to marketing himself as a hacker-for-hire that could break into iCloud accounts using the moniker “icloudripper4you.” He then would dupe people into giving up their Apple IDs and passwords so he could steal photos from where they were stored in the cloud on Apple servers. A California man impersonated an Apple customer support technician in a socially engineered email campaign that stole people’s iCloud passwords to break into accounts and collected upwards of 620,000 private photos and videos.

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