Check your settings, and make sure you know what's getting stored there. It's a great way to maintain a calendar, share pictures with friends or collaborate with coworkers on a project. If used by hackers, it could ruin your credit. If you IMed your Social Security number or credit card number to your loved one, that might be backed up in the cloud too. When hackers grabbed the Associated Press Twitter account passwords in 2013 and reported explosions at the White House, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 150 points within a minute. That includes sensitive company plans and password lists (a no-no, but people do it anyway). Everyone has something worth hacking.ĭocuments get saved on the cloud too.
In that case it would be hard to hackers to get them too - but they're still out there.Īpple on Tuesday confirmed that hackers leaked nude photos of celebrities (like Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and others) by breaking into their iCloud accounts.įor instance, Hollywood actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead said she deleted her photos "long ago." The only likely scenario is that she erased them from her device - but not the backups on the cloud.īut don't be fooled into thinking this only happens to celebrities. And even if you log into that cloud service and delete it there too, the disturbing truth is that company probably already copied your files to another server you can't access. If you delete a file from your phone, it lives on in the cloud. The lesson: Unless you take careful steps, your files no longer begin and end with the device on which you created them. So your private documents actually end up in computer servers at companies you never had contact with: Cisco ( CSCO), IBM ( IBM), Verizon ( VZ) and others all over the world. Companies strike deals to manage the flood of data. Microsoft ( MSFT) does it for Windows Phone and laptops.īut it doesn't end there. Your Android keeps your photos at a Google ( GOOG) data center. That means your iPhone takes all your stuff and automatically places it on Apple ( AAPL) servers. Cloud services like Apple's iCloud, Google Drive and Microsoft's OneDrive operate this way.
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