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To: blam
Yesterday we reported that an international group of hackers claim they have breached Apple’s iCloud user database and stolen 300 million usernames and passwords.

I was told Apple had the best security known to mankind.☺

2 posted on 03/25/2017 11:07:47 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2; Swordmaker

That’s what resident Apple fan boys would like you to believe. Page G Sword maker......


16 posted on 03/25/2017 11:20:57 AM PDT by Blue Highway (Q)
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To: dragnet2; Blue Highway
Yesterday we reported that an international group of hackers claim they have breached Apple’s iCloud user database and stolen 300 million usernames and passwords. . .

That’s what resident Apple fan boys would like you to believe. Page G Sword maker......

But it turned out not to be true. They had a few Phished iCloud accounts that they had garnered passcode access to from other sites where iCloud users had used their iCloud account names and passwords as their access IDs. The owners of these accounts have verified they were using their iCloud IDs in multiple locations and were also using simple passwords. The "Turkish Crime Family" turned out to be an group of amateur teenagers in London.

"There have not been any breaches in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud and Apple ID," the spokesperson said. "The alleged list of email addresses and passwords appears to have been obtained from previously compromised third-party services."

A person familiar with the contents of the alleged data set said that many of the email accounts and passwords contained within it matched data leaked in a past breach at LinkedIn. The professional networking site, since acquired by Microsoft (MSFT, +0.28%), was pilfered of information for more than 100 million accounts in 2012, though the extent of the digital heist only came to light last year. — Fortune Magazine — Mar 22, 2017

So sorry your triumphant moment of Apple iCloud failure has turned out to be a failed extortion HOAX using purloined data from non-Apple sources.

55 posted on 03/25/2017 1:03:26 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: dragnet2
I was told Apple had the best security known to mankind.☺

You left off "Cook is a Queer" and Apple costs to much for sane people.

73 posted on 03/25/2017 2:57:36 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to divide there will be division.)
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75 posted on 03/25/2017 3:27:01 PM PDT by freds6girlies (many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
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To: dragnet2

Obviously told that by a Fainboi.

None of it is good protection from our Government. All most of it does is keep the small fish out.


78 posted on 03/25/2017 4:18:57 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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