re: #6 Randall Gross

If it’s not Apple, then that leaves the Carriers or the Cloud Apps the photos were in…

The photos were in the iCloud, it sounds like. See:

After more than 40 hours of investigation, we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet.

Apple is just saying that the break-in wasn’t because of a breach in their security.