The hacker decided to break his silence in a conversation with Travis Doering, a Canadian tech and producer.

Doering offers details on security consultancy services to film Hollywood producers, filmstars, and businesses.

Speaking to Vulture South, he said that he had managed to acquire access to the secretive group.

How ‘RipSec’ made its way to Hollywood with the iCloud celebrity hack

I contacted some of the celebrities and she gave me access to her account, Doering says.

From there I baited them (the hackers).

The naked celebrity leaks that grabbed the headlines worldwide only enlarged the RipSec group in number and sophistication.

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To allow hackers to download rig backups from iCloud, the tool pretended as an iDevice.

When the hackers restored iCloud backups using iloot, Apple failed to send email notifications to users.

The admin says this feat gave them access to the media domain directory that had pictures from MMS messages.

for assist in closing the vulnerabilities on security information, Doering recommends Apple to open a bug bounty program.

Resource:The Register

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