There are a bunch of naked photos of people floating around that says it is easy enough.
But who cares about that when the real important task is to run cover for Apple?
Read the article. But you'd rather believe the FUD, in your preferential bias. The photos did not get out because iCloud was cracked or hacked, VanDeKoik, what few accounts that got compromised were breeched because the users allowed themselves to be phished. Researchers have well established how the bad guys got these pictures. . . and one guy went undercover into the group that did it. Where it became apparent they were all upset that one guy broke their code and went "outside" of their trading circles to try and sell images from his collection. They've been getting into celebrity accounts for years. . . by "social engineering." That's why the photographs included long ago deleted pictures, pictures from Windows PC webcams, and photos taken with Android phones. They weren't all from iCloud. Were some massaged from accounts in Apple's iCloud, you bet, but others came from Google, emails, compromised personal computers, wherever these perverts could steal them.
You WANT it to be from Apple's iCloud because that would tie into your extreme case of anti-Apple derangement. That's known as confirmational bias. . . and you do it all the time on Apple threads.
These two Aussies say they couldn’t crack iCloud, but this woman says is was terribly easy.
“All you need is someone’s iCloud password and then, two-factor authentication or not, you can download the content of their iCloud backups in minutes.”
How I Hacked My Own iCloud Account, for Just $200
http://mashable.com/2014/09/04/i-hacked-my-own-icloud-account/
This is all about fanbois running interference for the most secure OS in the world that needed extra effort to actually secure but they couldn’t say that ‘cause it would give the impression that Apple screwed up.
And now it’s coming out that two-part verification wouldn’t have secured these accounts anyway.
“While Apple has offered two-factor authentication on accounts for some time now, there is an omission in that system that hackers are taking advantage of. iCloud backups are not protected by two-factor authentication, and can be installed on new devices with only an Apple ID and password.”
Apple’s Two Factor Authentication Doesn’t Protect iCloud Backups Or Photo Streams
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/02/apples-two-factor-authentication-doesnt-protect-icloud-backups-or-photo-streams/
+1. The Apple cult is in full damage control mode.