Sorry, there are hackers everywhere, that can not be the reason,. Man must be much more careful with the new electronic devices, whether they are turned off or have an antivirus, or a simple password protection against foreign intervention. That alone would exclude many embarrassing situations. Previously it was the photographers, today there are hackers. Maybe tomorrow the new generation of robots. Do not laugh, it will come ... http://www.boersen.me

Where's my comment please?

I've been HACKED too, and they've been harassing me for three years now. But, NOBODY seems to want to help. I've been trying to get the law involved, but nobody seems to be interested. I can't get RID of them! I guess I'm going to have to learn white hat hacking to locate them myself? There are laws, but only CELEBS get immediate attention from law enforcement. Just because I'm not rich and famous, I'm still a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen, and might I add: A human being. But, hackers stalking, harassing me AND my family is irrelevant because I'm considered a nobody in the USA, just a needle in a haystack...

I've seen several statements about the celebs in question having their naked pictures "on the internet." I may be wrong, but having items In the Cloud is not the same as publishing images on the internet for everyone to see. As Steve suggests, a stolen box of Polaroids would not be viewed in the same way.

But it should. The medium is different, but the concept is the same.

The expert was not complete in blaming Apple on not stepping up with security and forgot to mention that Apple just like Google, Dropbox and other cloud services offers 2 STEP AUTHENTICATION.
Then its not only about what you know but what you have (cellphone with sms). Also you will receive warnings that an other device wants to use your iCloud account and you have to approve it.

And yes Apple offers Biometric authentication using fingerprint. With iOS 8 it will become available to other applications.

Still this doesn't take away that you should not not anything online that should not make the front page of the news...

Laura, if someone wants to take naked pictures of themselves, it is not tantamount to narcissism. It may well be a means of sharing their self with someone else when that someone is not physically available, perhaps due to distance. Is it only permissible to be naked "with" someone when sharing the same physical space? Is it not OK for a girlfriend to see her boyfriend naked if he's not within touching distance, or vice versa? Or do you just have a problem with nudity in general? The culture of shame is the problem, here. I don't think it's up to you to decide whether people may purvey images of themselves in states of undress to people they've chosen to view them. Storing those images in the cloud is really no different than having a shoebox full of Polaroids under the bed, and getting your cloudspace hacked and having its contents published online, for all to see, is not any different than someone breaking into your house, stealing that box of nude Polaroids and then posting them on a bulletin board.

Naked selfies are the "norm" now? Maybe for those with an inordinate amount of time and narcissism. I've never felt the need to take a naked selfie and can't imagine any of my friends doing the same. It's a sad day when we try to normalize what, if true, amounts to a culture of pubescent self absorption. We need better internet security but hardly because celebrities who, as a career, take sexually provocative pictures all the time and appear naked in films for the world to look at them, had a few of their personal naked pictures released.. If anything I'm sure they're very content with the additional publicity this and other stories have provided for them. If you take a naked picture of yourself your basically screaming "look at me." Naked pictures of celebrities who have been made very rich by being half and fully naked hardly deserve this amount of uproar or sympathy.