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re: Apple denies iCloud breach for The Fappening
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:51 pm to colorchangintiger
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:51 pm to colorchangintiger
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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.
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:55 pm to gmrkr5
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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.
It's still unclear whether the lockout bug had anything to do with it. If it did, I would consider it a "breach", and if Apple doesn't, they just had a "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" moment. (Which BTW Tim Cook could truthfully say.)
Posted on 9/2/14 at 3:55 pm to gmrkr5
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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.
Agree with this.
I'm not a fan of strong password enforcement (it actually pisses me off most if the time), but Apple should have locked these accounts before the brute force attack succeeded.
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