How Celebrities' Financial Information Got Leaked

On Monday, the financial information of a handful of celebrities were exposed by a mysterious website titled "The Secret Files." The stripped-down website, which looks a lot like a site made in 1997, contains social security numbers, credit reports, addresses and phone numbers of celebrities and public figures. Ashton Kutcher, Jay-Z, Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton were among those included in the list.

It's still unclear who's behind it, and both the FBI and the LAPD are investigating the incident. Media reports were quick to dub the culprits as "hackers." But was this really a sophisticated hack orchestrated by malicious geeks? Most likely, it wasn't