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> None of the most catastrophic hacks have been on the big public clouds. Wasn't Apple's iCloud hacked last year? Or was that the work of social engineering?
by ezekg 10y ago
> None of the most catastrophic hacks have been on the big public clouds.
Wasn't Apple's iCloud hacked last year? Or was that the work of social engineering?
- scrollaway 10y agoSocial engineering, IIRC. Edit: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-hackers-get-into-your-apple-icloud-account-2014-9 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-hackers-get-into-your-app...
- discodave 10y agoPlus iCloud is known to have heavily leveraged S3 and other services for its actual storage.
- dexterdog 10y agoIt was the same kind of hack as the "Russian election hack". Poor password practice led to routine unauthorized access of individual accounts. Guessing or stealing somebody's password is not usually a hack.