Apple knew of iCloud API weakness months before celeb photo leak broke

Ars Technica
By Sean GallagherSep 25, 2014, 11:55 am454 pts
A London-based security researcher made multiple reports to Apple that the company's iCloud service was vulnerable to brute-force password attacks months before the revelations that celebrities' iCloud backups were mined for intimate photos and videos. The Daily Dot reports that Ibrahim Balic sent descriptions…

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