1, hackers posted nude photos of celebrities, including those of Jennifer Lawrence and Victoria Justice, after breaching their iCloud accounts. They kept asking me to show them more stuff,” Balic told Daily Dot. “I believe the issue was not completely solved. According to Balic, an Apple official continued to inquire about the details of the exploit. The company also argued that hackers “would take an extraordinarily long time” to find a valid authentication to access iCloud accounts using the flaw. Balic also reported the flaw by using Apple’s online bug submission platform and recommended that the company should implement a feature in its iCloud service to prevent log-ins after a specific number of failed attempts.Īpple emailed Balic in May, questioning the validity of the exploit. Although the exploit discovered by Balic bears stark resemblance to the exploit that led to the leak of celebrity nude photos earlier this month, it is yet to be confirmed if they are the same security vulnerability, Daily Dot reported.Īccording to the report, Balic informed Apple in a March 26 email that he had successfully got around the security of any iCloud account by using a hacking method called “brute-force,” which allows more than 20,000 password combinations to be tried. The emails, which were said to have been reviewed by several security experts, showed that Ibrahim Balic, a London-based software developer, informed Apple about a method that he had discovered for hacking into iCloud accounts.
The leak, involving nude pictures of celebrities, gained notoriety as "The Fappening." An independent security researcher informed Apple about an iCloud vulnerability six months before it was used to hack into celebrity accounts, a report claimed Wednesday, adding that the revelation is based on leaked emails between the company and the security researcher.
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