What's being described as a massive hack in fact took advantage of an easily exploited loophole.
Yesterday, an as-of-yet still unknown "hacker" released the private information of more than a dozen celebrities, leaking their phone numbers, mortgages, and Social Security numbers online.
Source: ryanhatesthis
To call this a hack, though, isn't quite right. It's actually a fairly straightforward process.
Source: ryanhatesthis
The first step is to head to a city or town's mortgage registry.
Via: nyc.gov
New York City's system, known as ACRIS, prompts you for a name and a set of dates to search for documents within. Nothing more than what you could find on Wikipedia.
Via: en.wikipedia.org