All that does is notify a user that someone, most likely the user himself, is trying to change a password and prevents any further progress until the passcode provided by Apple, sent to a known device owned by the user is intput before proceeding with any changes to the account. It would prevent what happened.
The "Fappening" was a typical phishing expedition event. Nothing more. There is no "key" here except in your own delusional mind that desperately needs to have Apple iCloud defective in some way.
Even the FBI states that is what happened here. . . the Search Warrant Affidavit even defines Phishing as part of the request and reasons for why they needed the search warrant.
The facts of this case are that not one original password was ever "hacked" to gain access to the iCloud accounts. No one broke into iCloud by brute force breaking of anyone's passcode. No one found a backdoor. They used phishing to persuade the owners of the accounts to provide the password voluntarily, or the miscreant discovered the answers to the owners security questions by research and merely changed the users original password.
Did they change the users’ passwords? I thought they were pilfering content.
If they accessed the accounts for an extended period of time (once an evesdropper knows someone is creating nude content, they know they may get more if they keep their mouth closed and just wait) they didn’t change a password.
I thought the news of the hacked accounts was unknown to the victims until the photos were leaked. Changing the password would lock the celebs out of their own access. They’d call in and get the situation changed ASAP.
Resorting to name calling already I see. Well if you can’t win with facts... Attack the person.