Man Accused Of Leaking Naked Celebrity iCloud Photos Denies Everything
Business Insider | James Cook
Published September 1, 2014 11:32AM EDT
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Immediately after the leak of hundreds of nude photos of celebrities, allegedly from Apple's iCloud backup storage system, the internet began investigating in an attempt to discover the hacker responsible. Now, the man widely accused as being the original leaker has stepped forward to deny allegations that he hacked into the iCloud accounts of the rich and famous.
Twenty-six-year-old web developer Bryan Hamade told the Daily Mail that he was not the source of the leaks. Reddit and 4chan users alleged Hamade was the culprit after a screenshot posted online appeared to show a series of names connected with a web development company in Georgia. (Investigations by the armchair detectives of Reddit do not have a great track record. They once wrongly accused a missing 22-year-old of being the Boston Marathon Bomber; he had nothing to do with it.)
Amateur internet sleuths used the names to discover Southern Digital Media, a web hosting company in Atlanta. While some internet users initially suspected the company's 15-year-old intern as the hacker, suspicion quickly turned to server administrator Bryan Hamade.
Hamade, speaking to MailOnline, denied Reddit's claims, saying "I only reposted one thing that was posted elsewhere and stupidly had my network folders visible."
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