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The leaking of hundreds of files cast new doubt on the security of popular online storage sites Monday as investigators probed for explanations of the high-profile breach.
Privacy experts joined publicists in denouncing the leaks, which flooded Web sites over the weekend with images of more than a half-dozen A-list actresses and performers.
The breach — regarded as one of the most wide-ranging involving celebrities — has spurred concerns about the security of photographs, videos and documents that millions of Americans store in popular Internet “cloud” accounts.
some photographs allegedly were obtained from a personal iCloud account, a service operated by Apple and often used to automatically store photos taken by a user’s mobile phone.
“This is a flagrant violation of privacy,” a spokeswoman said in a statement that threatened to seek prosecution not only of the hacker, but also for anyone who redistributed the photographs.
The FBI said Monday that it was looking into the leaks. An Apple spokesman said the company was “actively investigating” apparent breaches of some of its iCloud accounts, but the company did not identify which accounts may have been compromised.
“We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating this report,” Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris told the technology Web site Recode.