The "funny" thing here is that the guy didn't host his photos on the cloud, he hosted them on his Mac. It was a command to the cloud to remote wipe his Mac that

The "funny" thing here is that the guy didn't host his photos on the cloud, he hosted them on his Mac. It was a command to the cloud to remote wipe his Mac that caused his photos to disappear. If he had hosted them on the cloud somewhere, they would have likely been backed up at some point.