Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Apple IDs of Professional Musicians and Athletes

[C DM]

There's obviously a weakness in Apple's security if the hacker can get a list of celebrity emails.

Seems like things that are claimed as obvious are pretty much anything but.

 

[nouveau_redneck]

Sad apple doesn't even try to prevent this. Got the most powerful bionic a12 chip and this is what you get.

There's obviously a weakness in Apple's security if the hacker can get a list of celebrity emails.

Are you being for real, or just trolling this thread?

 

[realtuner]

There's obviously a weakness in Apple's security if the hacker can get a list of celebrity emails.

More lies. You have a source this person somehow got a list of celebrity emails from Apple?

Why no, no you don’t.

 

[DavisEngeler]

Wait. The article just sorta breezes over “stolen credit card details” as if they were obtained with the stolen Apple passwords.

How would you get raw credit card details from an Apple account?

 

[DeepIn2U]

Plus, phishing schemes like this are nearly impossible to pull off when the account has 2FA enabled. Everyone should have it turned on at this point.

And ... there is a current lawsuit against making someone's 2FA enabled by default for their iCloud account. Seriously there is!
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More lies. You have a source this person somehow got a list of celebrity emails from Apple?

Why no, no you don’t.

Maybe he doesn't have a source ... but I find it just a tad bit unusual that more than a handful of celebrities were directly targeted as known iPhone/Mac users; hmm.

 

[ingik]

Maybe he doesn't have a source ... but I find it just a tad bit unusual that more than a handful of celebrities were directly targeted as known iPhone/Mac users; hmm.

That's the "phising" part, he probably targeted them without having any information if they had iCloud account's or not, but only those who have one will bite.

 

[techwhiz]

Phishing/Social Engineering is not "Hacking".
Gaining access to a network/system with no previously known credential is "Hacking".

 

[MisterSavage]

Plus, phishing schemes like this are nearly impossible to pull off when the account has 2FA enabled. Everyone should have it turned on at this point.

I was completely shocked when I read the story that came out last year that revealed that less than 10% of Gmail users had 2FA enabled.

Some of the threads on here about 2FA have made me SMH.

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Phishing/Social Engineering is not "Hacking".
Gaining access to a network/system with no previously known credential is "Hacking".

Even that isn’t hacking; it’s cracking.

It was bad enough when lazy or ignorant reporters and editors confused hacking with cracking, but for a tech website like MacRumors to confuse hacking with phishing is embarrassingly bad.

 

[Doctor Q]

Wait. The article just sorta breezes over “stolen credit card details” as if they were obtained with the stolen Apple passwords.

How would you get raw credit card details from an Apple account?

Apparently, in this case, you just email the account owner and ask!