Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro & other Hollywood stars hit by cyberattack
A massive data breach involving the Tribeca Film Festival has exposed the personal contact information of numerous Hollywood A-listers, including Angelina Jolie and Robert De Niro. The leak, attributed to human error in a cloud storage system, contained over 666,000 records.
Why it matters
The incident highlights the vulnerability of high-profile individuals' personal data and the risks associated with misconfigured cloud storage in the entertainment industry.
Hollywood A-Listers, including Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Martin Scorsese, Rami Malek, and many more, are among the victims whose personal details were breached due to a cyberattack. The contact numbers and email addresses were made publicly available, putting the stars' personal information at risk due to accessibility. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler flagged the leak last month, deeming it one of the largest celebrity-related exposures yet.Cybersecurity breach exposes Hollywood A-listers' contact informationJeremiah Fowler became acquainted with the breach, and the findings suggest that the databases contained close to 666,000 records dating from 2019 to 2026, consisting of marketing materials, such as press releases, stored on a cloud system, per The Sun. One of the backup files titled ‘contacts’ contained personal information. All records were tied to New York’s annual Tribeca Film Festival, which Robert De Niro launched in 2002.
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