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

Apple has quietly fix the Find My iPhone service many technology experts believe is the source of the photo-sensitive dispersal of tens of female stars.

• Jennifer Lawrence and 100 female celebrity hot photos leaked

This vulnerability is known under the name ibrute and been recommended on Github website. It allows hackers to access data on iCloud cloud storage by exploiting a weakness in the phone navigation service Find My iPhone.

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Apple's service has no mechanism of protection against brute force attacks, so anyone who wants to dig into someone's iCloud account can comfortably enter different passwords series 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).

Last weekend, hackers launched a series of nude beauties like actress Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Vanessa Hudgens, Rihanna, Hillary Duff, Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead ... online. They claimed even have video 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.

Many technology experts identified as the cause of ibrute "disaster nude" and Apple also have quick fixes, but the judgment has not been authenticated.

Meanwhile, Github said flaw in Find My iPhone ibrute Apple has been overcome. If a user enters a password incorrectly 5 times, their iCloud account will be temporarily blocked. However, Apple has not acknowledged ibrute really the source of emissions for nude or not.

"Protecting the privacy of the user is the leading concern of Apple and we are actively investigating this issue," Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, confirmed on Recode.