According to a biography ‘Finding Freedom’, Russian hackers reportedly stole 100s of photos and videos related to the marriage of Duke with Duchess of Sussex that includes some snaps related to the Queen of Britain.
Authored by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, the biography gives us details on why Prince Harry chose to depart the royal life to lead a quiet living in United States along with his newly born son ‘Archie’ Harrison Mountbatten Windsor and wife Meghan Markle.
Coming to the data leak, the breach is a wake up call to the entire world on how hackers could invade into the personal lives of celebrities without their knowledge to create havoc thereafter.
Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt that the stolen photos were related to the wedding photographer Alexi Lubomiriski, hired to digitally capture the wedding of the Duke with Meghan in May’18. Around 200 photos related to the Prince’s wedding were stolen by a computer programmer based in Russia out of which many were ‘outtakes’ meant to be directed to the computer trash can.
The biography specifies that the memorabilia were siphoned from a cloud account owned by the marriage photographer and includes pictures taken by Harry and Meghan along with the Queen at the wedding.
A photo sharing website named Tumblr is seen displaying a few of the stolen pictures possibly leaked by the hacker.
An inquiry into the data breach and leakage of wedding photos was launched by the law enforcement in Britain after it received an official complaint from the authorities at the Queens palace.
Note- In June 2019, hackers somehow managed to infiltrate the personal computer of the New York based fashion photographer Alexi Lubomirski well- known in the fashion community of London for digitally capturing the lives of Scarlett Johnson, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Natalie Portman on many ocassions/events.
