Massive Hack Of Celebrity Photos A Reminder About Vulnerability

(CBS) --Apple is denying any of their systems, including the iCloud were breached in that mass theft of celebrity photos.

Those photos were leaked over the holiday weekend including nude images of actress Jennifer Lawrence and pop star Rihanna.

CBS 2's Chris Martinez reports it has left many people asking if their photos are safe online.

Chances are, you're one of the estimated 300 million people using cloud servers to back up photos, documents, basically your entire life.

Professor Bill Kresse sums up the cloud like as, "a number of servers that are linked together that have a huge amount of capacity where you can store your information and access it through the internet."

Indeed many of us use them, perhaps not entirely understanding how it works or how it stores everything, long after you hit delete on your device and that can lead to hacking.

The massive hack of more than 100 celebrities reminds us again how vulnerable we are, though we may be tired of being told.

"hack fatigue. People are hearing these stories all the time and they're throwing up their arms and said there's nothing I can do about it," Kresse said.

The expert's advice: "See if you're syncing to the cloud and if so, do it only on your command… storing things on the harddrive of your laptop that you know is secured is the next best thing."

Tuesday afternoon another yet another breach was revealed, this one involving credit and debit cards used at Home Depot stores across the country. Early reports indicate this breach could be far bigger than the one we saw at Target stores last year.