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Jailbreaking pirates popped in world's largest iCloud raid - 225,000 accounts hit
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2015-09-01 00:34
The largest Apple iCloud raid in history has seen nearly a quarter of a million accounts compromised by malware targeting app pirates.
The hack spree, affecting at least 225,000 valid Apple cloud accounts, is hitting jailbroken iThings – devices that have had Cupertino's strict device security controls bypassed and disabled.
Nude videos of Kris Jenner "hacked from her iCloud"
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2015-02-24 01:00
I have to be up front and tell you the truth. Being British, I don't know who Kris Jenner is.
Indeed, I have to admit that I thought the Kardashians were aliens in Star Trek.
iOS 8 bug could delete your iCloud Drive documents
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-09-30 23:42
An alleged bug in iOS 8 appears to be deleting documents stored in iCloud Drive without the user's permission.
Discovered by MacRumors after complaints surfaced from users of the blog site's forums, the bug is triggered by the option to Reset All Settings.
More naked celebrity photos leaked
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-09-22 00:52
Three weeks ago hundreds of nude celebrity photos were leaked onto the internet. Dubbed The Fappening, the collection included pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Kaley Cuoco, with the majority of the personal images apparently obtained from hacked iCloud accounts.
Celebrity photo leak worsens as underage photos found
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-09-03 23:55
The hacking of celebrity accounts and the theft of explicit photos of a number of female stars has become even more serious, with word that at least one of the women was underage when the leaked pictures were taken. Several sites hosting the photos - which have already prompted an official statement from Apple early today, about the role iCloud played in their theft - have been notified that, in some shots, Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney was under the age of 18.
