Apple Fixes iCloud Glitch That Revealed JLaw’s Boobs To The World

Published on: 2nd September 2014 at 10:48 AM

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Apple has patched a security hole that may have allowed hackers to access the iCloud accounts of several celebrities and leak them on the web forum 4Chan, according to CBS News report.

A vulnerability in Apple’s AAPL 0.05% “Find My iPhone” feature was exposed on the code-sharing site GitHub a day before a collection of nude photos depicting celebrities was leaked.

The Find My iPhone service wasn’t equipped with a mechanism for preventing “brute force attacks,” or when hackers create a tool to test thousands of passwords against a users’ account until they find the correct one, according to Engadget.

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