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ELI5 How exactly Scarlett Johansson's phone was "hacked" and pictures stolen from it.

First ELI5 post! Sorry if this has been covered somewhere.

So these celebs keep saying their phones were "hacked" and their private photos stolen. I am no expert, but I want to understand how that is possible. I am assuming they all have nice, newer smartphones, so that means pretty much Android or IOS. I don't think they would be using something like the Sprint Picturemail thing, so all I can fathom in my "like a 5 year old" mind is they maybe downloaded rogue software on accident from the Android Marketplace? It seems the App Store for IOS is a lot more stringent against those sort of malicious apps. If they have iPhones, I can't figure out how this would have happened.

tl;dr HOW ARE THE CELEB PHONE PIC HACKS ACTUALLY HAPPENING?
gpt
I doubt very much that anything is being "hacked" in the traditional sense. More likely they were sent to a friend who wasn't as trustworthy as previously thought, or the phones were simply stolen and rifled through.