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Reports coming in from The Netherlands have claimed that a Dutch-Moroccan hacking firm known as Doluci have successfully cracked into Apple's iCloud infrastructure, allowing them to unlock iPhones that would otherwise be completely blocked by Apple. Now given that there is a 400,000 strong user base of iCloud, this is a particularly worrying revelation. Apple's iCloud infrastructure has never been breached in this way before and this could have significant repercussions.
There are almost half a million iCloud users and this service is full of private information and data. Doluci are apparently on a quest to unlock ill-obainted iPhones and according to reports, some 30,000 devices have been unlocked in the past couple of days.
Apple devices are very lucrative and Apple introduced a system that was meant to keep prying eyes out and if your iPhone was stolen or obtained illegally, the only way to restore or use the device again was if the correct Apple ID password was keyed in. If these claims from The Netherlands are true, they will make a mockery of Apple's anti-theft measures and iCloud's security credentials too.
This really is a massive deal and one of the main reasons why so many people tend to stick with traditional hard drives instead of using the cloud is because they have reservations about security and privacy. This Dutch team has successfully managed to get into the service and it makes you wonder whether this will have an effect on cloud services in general and not just in relation to Apple. The team of hackers is said to have intercepted the communication between the device and iCloud using an intermediary, with apps falsely led to believe that the spoofing tool in question is a genuine Apple server. From here, the activation apparatus can be meddled with, allowing devices to be unlocked. One security expert also believes that this could also be used to read messages and intercept personal data.
Apple has yet to respond to this issue publicly but we are sure a statement is on the way. What do you think of this? Will it make you more aware of using cloud services?
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