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Apple denies iCloud breach for The Fappening
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:43 pm
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:43 pm
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Looks like a little social engineering is to blame.
quote:
We wanted to provide an update to our investigation into the theft of photos of certain celebrities. When we learned of the theft, we were outraged and immediately mobilized Apple’s engineers to discover the source. Our customers’ privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. 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. None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud® or Find my iPhone. We are continuing to work with law enforcement to help identify the criminals involved.
To protect against this type of attack, we advise all users to always use a strong password and enable two-step verification. Both of these are addressed on our website at https://support.apple.com/kb/ht4232.
Looks like a little social engineering is to blame.
This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 1:45 pm
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:43 pm to colorchangintiger
Riiiight
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:49 pm to colorchangintiger
quote:
we advise all users to always use a strong password and enable two-step verification. Both of these are addressed on our website at
because like apple can't enforce stronger password creation rules??
scottrade, salesforce.com and my bank require not only much more rigid letter/number combinations than apple but they also require i change them on regular intervals as well.
eta icloud noods not as important as my last stock trade i guess.
This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:49 pm to colorchangintiger
wtf is it then Apple
where is my LOL face...
here it is...
where is my LOL face...
here it is...
This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 1:50 pm
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:51 pm to colorchangintiger
Here's hoping they're not playing games with the word "breach", because if those accounts were brute forced, that would be pretty Clintonesque of them.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:51 pm to colorchangintiger
quote:
Looks like a little social engineering is to blame.
Social engineering of some sort was used to obtain the IDs but a flaw in find my iphone allowed for the brute force attempts to occur. apple should have locked the IDs after multiple failed tries but it did not.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 2:40 pm to colorchangintiger
Another thing worth noting is that this wasn't as simple as just taking pictures saved to photo stream. There were apparently videos and for you non Apple users, videos do not back up to photo stream. Those would have to come from phone back ups and apparently Apple's security set up does not allow back ups to be pulled down to a computer.
This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 9/2/14 at 3:23 pm to colorchangintiger
Look closely at the semantics here - "None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud® or Find my iPhone. "
So, how many cases is that? 1? 5? 25? They've clearly left themselves room to walk it back by not specifying an actual number.
So, how many cases is that? 1? 5? 25? They've clearly left themselves room to walk it back by not specifying an actual number.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 6:29 pm to colorchangintiger
Bet they are doing this cause the big iphone 6 event coming up.. How much you bet after that it will be fact it was a icloud hack.
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