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It wasn't that, they did do password cracking, if I recall correctly iCloud itself had a limit on password attempts through the site but there was a way to atte
by faceplanted 6y ago
It wasn't that, they did do password cracking, if I recall correctly iCloud itself had a limit on password attempts through the site but there was a way to attempt logins through the API that didn't have that limit which let them target those users for brute force attacks.
- wlesieutre 6y agoI think this was speculation at the time, but it later came out that they were phishing attacks which got access to iCloud accounts, and once you have that you have the person's device backups.