![]() ![]() ![]() Even the original poster is not claiming that,” noted Rik Ferguson, vice-president of security research at Trend Micro.Īs with the many celebrity hacks (and daily hacks that affect less famous people), the simpler and more likely explanation is the leak of an email and password combination, either through guesswork or “phishing”, when users are fooled by authentic-looking sites into entering their login details, which are then used against them.Īpple is still investigating what is claimed to be an attack on its iCloud service, which is used by iPhone users to store settings and, crucially, which backs up photos taken with the phone to “cloud” servers. “A wide scale ‘hack’ of Apple’s iCloud is unlikely. Large companies like Apple have dedicated in-house security teams who attempt to break into their own systems regularly. The most headline-grabbing possibility for the source of the photos – a full-on frontal-assault ground-up hack of Apple’s iCloud service – is also the least likely. ![]()
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