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I'm sure I read else where that it requires more information than that article is letting on in order to perform the hack.
 
I'm sure I read else where that it requires more information than that article is letting on in order to perform the hack.

I think OP is under the impression that you can just buy this application and go hacking iCloud accounts.
 
What Gav2k said.

As before, the hackers would need some information to start with -- either your Apple ID/password plus a two-factor code, or a digital token stolen from, say, your laptop.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/18/Elcomsoft-phone-breaker-icloud-two-step/

Basically, similar to the report a few months back from some security firm about your phone is "in danger". With the security firm's report, they found that if a bad guy can copy the "escrow" keys off a computer or the mobile device management profile from a company server, AND the phone and bad guy are on the same network, then they can scrape data. But that was pre-iOS8, so, lots of the stuff is now encrypted, can maybe still get at the metadata for the filesystem (eg. filename, size).

This company also has a module where they can brute force a PIN-style passcode on the phone, with the caveat it's jailbroken.
 
I think OP is under the impression that you can just buy this application and go hacking iCloud accounts.

No , i just didnt read entirely clearly, I read the whole entire article and know it asks you that you need apple id/password but i was a little confused on the key part, i didnt know they needed access to your computer/laptop aswell, which makes it alot harder to do

Obviously you cant just buy this software and go around hacking lol, otherwise there would of been countless reports over the years of it occuring.
 
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