Emails Show Apple Knew About Apple iCloud Security Problems 6 Months Before Nude Celeb Picture Hacking

Emails Show Apple Knew About Apple iCloud Security Problems 6 Months Before Nude Celeb Picture Hacking

Emails Show Apple Knew About Apple iCloud Security Problems 6 Months Before Nude Celeb Picture Hacking

Uh Oh!!! Sounds like Apple has a LOT of explaining to do!

Apple has denied again and again that their iCloud service had been hacked, but newly-leaked emails between Apple and a security researcher show that Apple may have been well aware of the security problems with their iCloud service 6 months before all of the celebrity accounts were hacked, and their nude images stolen.

Apple also has some other big problems popping up right now as well. (besides better phones made by Samsung)

One of which is the report that the metal case of the new iPhone 6 seems to actually be bending when people put the phone in their pockets.

Apple is denying that their iPhones are bending, but there are pictures all over the Internet showing bent new iPhones, and there were even reports of the iPhone 5 phones bending as well while in people’s pockets.

Apple is denying that their phones are bending,

Apple is denying that their phones are bending,

Ouch! I would be very pissed if my new iPhone got all bent out of shape with what we would call normal use.

Emails leaked Wednesday between a security researcher and Apple reveal the company knew about a security flaw in iCloud six months before the hack and leak of hundreds of celebrities’ nude photos from their Apple accounts earlier this month.

Emails obtained by the Daily Dot between London-based security researcher Ibrahim Balic and Apple show Balic warning the Silicon Valley giant about a successful hacking method he’d used to get around iCloud security meant to prevent “brute-force” cyberattacks.

Such attacks were used to access the iCloud accounts of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst and others by exploiting a flaw in Apple’s “Find My iPhone” app, which reportedly allowed the attacker(s) to try multiple passwords with a guessing tool before eventually stumbling across the right one. Conventional security logins lock a user out after a number of incorrect entries.

In an email to Apple dated March 26, Balic said he was able to attempt more than 20,000 password combinations on any account, and he wanted to notify Apple in the hope that the company would fix the problem. In addition to the email, Balic also submitted his discovery to Apple’s online bug submission page.

Someone from Apple responded to Balic on May 6 asking for more information about his discovery, and cast doubt on its potential to let hackers access accounts in a timely fashion.

“Using the information you provided, it appears that it would take an extraordinarily long time to find a valid authentication token for an account,” the Apple representative wrote. “Do you believe that you have a method for accessing an account in a reasonably short amount of time?”

Right after the pictures exploded all over the web along with their alleged source, Apple reportedly immediately patched the security flaw in “Find My iPhone,” while simultaneously denying iCloud had been hacked. In a company statement put out the week of the attack, Apple denied responsibility, asserting that the celebrities were specifically targeted in the attack that would have left any website vulnerable.

Despite the “Find My iPhone” patch and a new iCloud two-step authentication security update recently issued by Apple, the company continues to deny any responsibility for the hack. (RELATED: Apple Denies Responsibility For Celeb Photo Leak)

“If Apple had taken this issue more seriously, perhaps such a problem would not have arisen,” Balic said in the report.

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