Apple said it will introduce more security alerts and better educate consumers about why and how to use iCloud in the wake of an iCloud breach in which hackers obtained personal and revealing pictures of female celebrities and posted them online.
CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal that the company will start alerting people through email and mobile push notifications when anyone tries to change a password on an Apple account, restore iCloud data to a device that isn’t yet registered with the account, or when a new device logs into iCloud.
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Cook also gave more information on what it originally said was a “highly targeted attack,” describing the way hackers correctly guessed the celebrities’ security question answers.
Apart from beefing up security measures, Cook said the company needs to do a better job of providing information to consumers—it’s not just the tech that needs a boost.
“When I step back from this terrible scenario that happened and say what more could we have done, I think about the awareness piece,” he told the newspaper. “I think we have a responsibility to ratchet that up. That’s not really an engineering thing.”
Cook said Apple will begin using push notifications to alert users within the next two weeks.
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