Apple CEO Tim Cook made his first comment about the hacking scandal around cloud service iCloud. The general director has promised to take measures to strengthen the protection of the service.
Cook denied the existence of vulnerabilities in the services Apple, the fault of which allegedly was a mass leak intimate photos. Earlier, summing up the "more than 40 hours" of the internal investigation, the manufacturer of the iPhone and iPad announced that iCloud and Find My Phone have not been compromised, and private shots of celebrities had been stolen as a result of targeted hacking individual accounts. According to the head of Apple, the attackers gained access to the accounts of celebrities in iCloud, the correct answer to the security question for password or using phishing to determine the ID and password. Cook said that leaks your Apple ID and password to the company's servers were not.
Private photos of dozens of actresses, centerfold and other celebrities, we recall, were laid out at the beginning of the month on an anonymous forum 4chan.org. In the public domain were pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, Selena Gomez and Avril Lavigne and other celebrities. Leakage associated with the vulnerability when Find My Phone, which allows access to an account by brute force (provided that the attacker was known e-mail address that can simultaneously act as an identifier Apple ID). Later it was reported that Apple patched a "hole" .
Cook said that Apple will now notify users by e-mail, and by means of push-notifications about trying to change the password for accounts on iCloud to restore the data on a new device, or when a device is first connected to the account. Earlier notification about data recovery iCloud not dispatched.
Apple plans to begin sending these messages in two weeks. The new system will allow users to take immediate action, including changing the password and access to the security service company.