Gone are the doubts that were pouring into the Internet about the possibility of stealing iCloud passwords and usernames. Apple has fixed the security hole that allowed hackers to generate "crude" attacks against the iCloud cloud in order to collect keys.
These attacks were carried out with a tool called iDict, which first appeared on Github in the early days of 2015.
This tool seems to be that it allowed, using a dictionary, to find out the password of the Apple ID, managing to steal the account as well as the data. Now then, surely you are wondering How can this be possible?.
Normally, web services and including access to the iCloud cloud always detect the number of times a password has been entered and it has been wrong. However, a user named Prox13 It seems that in early January he found a way to get around this limitation.
Faced with this news, those from Cupertino worked piecemeal, initially reducing the number of times a wrong password could be entered to later patch the system completely, being today again insurmountable, eliminating the possibility of using iDict.
As you can see, those from Cupertino are always working so that their systems are as secure as possible and that the private data of the millions of users who have accounts with them are as secure as possible. We'll see how long it takes for hackers to look for a new breach in the bitten apple system.
