No, for-q, it wasn't. You, because of your irrational anti-Apple bias ignore the facts that have come out and prefer the FUD. Any accounts that were compromised did not get hacked by brute force. The photos were being shown on the anon-ib and 4chan at least five days before IBrute was posted and made available to be used. Apple put the fix on FindMyiPhone a mere twelve hours (at 3:00 AM Monday morning) after IBrute was posted into the wild. The photos didn't gain much attention at first because people thought they were fakes. IBrute, however, suddenly gave them a possible provenance when the guy trying to sell them on 4Chan started claiming he got them by cracking iCloud—a claim he later retracted in a fit of panic when it was pointed out there was a five year FEDERAL prison rap per each stolen pic—and people started looking at them.
Analysis shows the compromised accounts had their passwords changed. They were hi-jacked by having weak, easily discovered answers to their security questions that could be learned through any Fanzine biography. In addition, analysis of the photos on anon-ib and 4chan show they did not all come from Apple's iCloud, but rather from multiple sources, many of them predating iCloud. The photos include pictures taken with non-Apple devices including Windows PC webcams, Android phone selfies, regular digital cameras, some have Tumblr watermarks, etc. They have the hallmarks of being someone's private collection that was being offered for sale. . . and that is what is now being uncovered. Read the following for a better understanding of what's going on in an underground community of perverts who've been privately stealing and trading celebrity nudes for years, and how one of them decided to go outside the network to make more money.
Now sword, personal attacks are not rational. But no one is attacking you or apple. You seem to have more faith on the mainstream press than the rest of us.
For example, it been reported that healthcare.gov was hacked. But they assure us no prsonal data was comprimised. Do you believe this?
Cause even though we all knew there were flaws, are we now to believe no data was comprimized.
See the point?