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by jnorthrop 4310 days ago
I think the answer is more simple than that. We had the news 3-4 weeks ago of a Russian group propagating a file with over 1 billion user accounts[1]. I bet someone went through that list, found the celebrities and used that information to access their iCloud accounts.

[1] http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/russian-hacking-gang-u...