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Actress Jennifer Lawrence, one of the targets of the hack
Bryan Hamade, a 26-year-old internet developer, told the Daily Mail that he was not responsible for the leaks. Users of Reddit and 4chan alleged that Hamade was the culprit after a screenshot posted online surfaced showing a number of names connected to an internet progression company. in Georgia. (Investigations conducted through Reddit sleuths don’t have a great track record. A missing 22-year-old was once falsely accused of being the Boston Marathon shooter; it has nothing to do with it).
Amateur internet sleuths used those names to uncover Southern Digital Media, an internet hosting company based in Atlanta. While some netizens initially suspected that the hacker was a 15-year-old intern, suspicions were temporarily directed towards the server administrator, Bryan Hamade.
Hamade, speaking to MailOnline, denied Reddit’s claims, saying, “I only reposted one thing that was posted elsewhere and foolishly left my network folders visible. “
“I’m not the original leaker. The genuine guy posts intermittently on 4chan,” says Hamade, “it’s probably the one listed here, but it looks like the images were passed on to several other people before being leaked, so it’s possibly just someone who owns them and hasn’t hacked to get them. I will never know how to hack any of the indexed accounts. 4chan simply attacked me because they like to attack anyone in conditions like this.
In a message to BuzzFeed, Hamade said he was subjected to abuse from others investigating the iCloud hack: “It’s been a nightmare and I haven’t slept in 34 hours. 4chan users harass me with incessant phone calls and They send emails constantly, telling me that they are going to hack my private websites and that they will keep calling me on the phone, calling me a faggot and then they will hang up. They also said that they would hack my mother’s site, so I deleted it.
“I have a lot of regrets,” he told BuzzFeed. I didn’t even make any bitcoin with this. It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever done and I hope it doesn’t ruin my life, it probably will, as it’s just the most vital news. “
Reddit has a long history of starting frantic investigations into existing events. In July 2013, a Reddit network was created to investigate available security cameras and photographs of the Boston Marathon attacks. One of the suspects known through Reddit turned out to be an innocent man. A homeless man who was later discovered dead.
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