Apple confirms 'disaster nude' no fault iCloud

Apple said it had conducted investigations and found that more than 100 female celebrity nudity exposed the fault of the user, not related to system vulnerabilities.

• Find My iPhone flaw could be the reason of 'disaster nude'

The company explains, celebrities are always targeted by cybercriminals and hackers took advantage of the information we hold is to penetrate the accounts of female stars.

"After more than 40 hours of investigation, we found that the account was being controlled by a common procedure on the web. It's attackers will enter your username, password and predict the answers of the question security questions (such as mother's maiden name, your, your first school ...). No cases related to bugs in Apple's system, including service iCloudFind my iPhone or. We will continue to work with the authorities to identify those who spread information, "Apple said.

Late last week, a series of nude beauties like actress Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Vanessa Hudgens, Rihanna ... posted online . Who spread the video claiming ownership of more than 100 stars sensitive woman and offered to sell to make money. Jennifer Lawrence's representative has confirmed the authenticity of this photograph and said hackers stole them from iCloud account of the actress.

Even that's au, Github website discovered Find My iPhone service d ịch Apple does not have a mechanism of protection against brute force attacks, or anyone who wants to dig into someone's iCloud account can comfortably batch import different passwords without fear of being blocked. (Brute force works by testing all possible passwords in order to find the right password. Typically, the service will block this attack by temporarily lock the account if the user enters the wrong password too some specified times).

Earlier this week, Apple has patched immediately above and if a user enters a password incorrectly 5 times, their iCloud account will be temporarily blocked. Therefore, many people still doubt this bug has been exploited to attack.