待解的13件神祕事件 (3)

2015年待解的13件神祕事件 (3)

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5)  SADDLE RIDGE GOLD-埋在地下的黃金 (橫財待取)

Was the $10 million treasure actually from a 1901 heist?

 

                                成罐的金幣                                               舊金山鑄幣局

Inside a Saddle Ridge Gold Coin Can. 在馬鞍袋內的金幣罐中

Buried for more than a century, 1,400 gold coins — worth an estimated $10 million — were unearthed in a California backyard in 2014. The middle-aged California couple who discovered the eight decaying tin cans full of gold remain anonymous.

埋在地下一百多年來，價值一仟萬美元，共一仟四佰個金幣在2014年在加州一處家庭後院被挖出來。發現到八大箱正在腐蝕的錫製罐子內裝滿黃金的，是一對中年夫婦，他們姓名仍不願透露。

Where did the gold come from? 黃金到底來自何處?

The tale grew even more curious as we discovered that $30,000 worth of similar gold coins — that amount would be in the millions in today's dollars — had been stolen from the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1901. Soon we were all playing a game of whodunit.

當我們發覺，若以今天幣值計算約值好幾百萬元，當時價值僅三萬美元的相同金幣，在1901年從舊金山鑄幣廠被偷盜時，這個故事就更令人好奇。我們大家很快就會玩一場猜謎遊戲。

Former San Francisco Mint clerk Walter N. Dimmick was charged with that theft, but, by the prosecution’s own admission, he was convicted on wholly circumstantial evidence. Despite the fact that the Secret Service searched all over California for those coins, they were never found.

前舊金山鑄幣廠員工Walter N. Dimmick曾被控監守自盜，但依檢察官的認定，他是依間接(旁證) 証據被定罪。雖然祕密調查人員搜遍整個加州，就是找不到這些金幣。

But maybe that couple living in Northern California finally did.

可是住在北加州的那一對夫婦卻終於找到。

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6)  CELEBRITY PHOTO HACK-侵入名人相片的駭客

Who is behind the attack that exposed A-listers' most private messages?

曝露Ａ級演藝人員的名單中，大部分私人信息背後的攻擊指使人是誰?

  

Jennifer Lawrence, pictured here on Nov. 17, was one of several victims of the iCloud hack.

上為珍妮佛勞倫斯, 11月7日拍攝的相片，她是被iCloud入侵的駭客中若干位受害人之一

   

             Kate Upton                                                            名人裸照外洩

  

                     4chan的傑作?

Beginning in late August an anonymous 4chan user began posting hundreds of never-before-seen private photos of celebrities that were stolen from their hacked iCloud accounts. The victims were mostly female and high-profile: Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlet Johansson, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton and McKayla Maroney are just a few women whose accounts were compromised.

此事件開始於去年八月下旬，一位匿名的4號頻道使用者 (4-chan user) 開始在網路上登出數百張從未看過的名人照片，這些照片偷自他們所入侵得到的iCloud (註) 的帳戶中。受害者多半是女性與高知名度者：Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlet Johnson, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton 與McKayla Maroney等人不過是若干帳戶受害的婦女。

【註】：iCloud是蘋果公司所提供的雲儲存和雲端運算服務，初始空間有5GB，可以擴充功能。用戶能在iCloud中儲存音樂、照片、App、聯絡人和日曆等，並將無線推播到用戶所有支援iCloud同步的裝置上，而不用使用連接線來同步。

Apple confirmed the hackers had obtained the images by means of a "targeted" attack, though we still don't know who — or how many hackers — was involved. The FBI said it was looking into the case.

蘋果公司証實，駭客們早已利用定點目標的攻擊方式，來取得相片，雖然我們仍不知駭客們是何人，或有幾個人涉嫌。聯邦調查局說正在調查本案。

01/07/2014

Justin Lai  編譯