Apple iCloud Hack's Other Victim: Cloud Trust

ByCharles Babcock  Posted on 9/10/2014
Our flash poll finds users feel more vulnerable about cloud security in general. No wonder: Apple's opening statement of indignation now sounds a little hollow.
 "A trove of naked photos and video content stolen from the stars appeared on the 4Chan chatroom site over the weekend. Questions about how the hackers got hold of the celebs' accounts began to center around a possible flaw in Apple's iCloud and Find My iPhone," reported my colleague Kelly Jackson Higgins for Dark Reading on Sept. 2. There were reports Apple had recently fixed a hole that would allow a brute-force password attack, she noted.
What better way to cast doubt on the security of iCloud than to scatter celebrities' personal information across the Internet? And just in case anyone missed it, make sure the words "Jennifer Lawrence" and "nude" or "naked" are combined in as many headlines as possible. If that was the attackers' goal, then it can't be denied, they in some measure succeeded.