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Some Of Hacker Group's Claims Of Having Access To 250M iCloud Accounts Aren't False (zdnet.com)
Earlier this week, a hacker group claimed that it had access to 250 million iCloud accounts. The hackers, who called themselves part of Turkish Crime Family group, threatened to reset passwords of all the iCloud accounts and remotely wipe those iPhones. Apple could stop them, they said, if it paid them a ransom by April 7. In a statement, Apple said, "the alleged list of email addresses and passwords appears to have been obtained from previously compromised third-party services," and that it is working with law enforcement officials to identify the hackers. Now, ZDNet reports that it obtained a set of credentials from the hacker group and was able to verify some of the claims. From the article: ZDNet obtained a set of 54 credentials from the hacker group for verification. All the 54 accounts were valid, based on a check using the site's password reset function. These accounts include "icloud.com," dating back to 2011, and legacy "me.com" and "mac.com" domains from as early as 2000. The list of credentials contained just email addresses and plain-text passwords, separated by a colon, which according to Troy Hunt, data breach expert and owner of notification site Have I Been Pwned, makes it likely that the data "could be aggregated from various sources." We started working to contact each person, one by one, to confirm their password. Most of the accounts are no longer registered with iMessage and could not be immediately reached. However, 10 people in total confirmed that their passwords were accurate, and as a result have now been changed.
chances are people reuse passwords and they were able to log on to people's icloud using credentials from another site.
Nearly all submissions here lately have to do with one or more of these four topics:
1) Politics
2) Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and/or Twitter
3) "Climate Change"
4) Movies
They just repeat over and over and over and over and over and over again.
It's rare to see a relevant article about computer programming, for example.
I have to go back almost a week, to last Sunday (it's Friday today), before I find the most recent submission about programming. Now it is a very, very shitty submission, but at least it has something to do with programming.
I know, I know, I could submit some submissions on my own, but I refuse to do that. Why? Firstly, it requires an account now, which I refuse to make. We didn't need an account to submit stories in the past. We shouldn't need one now. And secondly, it would be a supreme waste of my time. The submissions likely wouldn't end up on the front page because they'd actually be interesting and relevant, which seems like a certain way of getting a submission discarded.
Editors, let's try to get some interesting submissions on the front page, okay?
Agreed.
[ something about Natalie Portman and grits! ]
Is it true then?
Maybe they have 249,998,743. If that's so, the claim of them having 250M accounts is a blatant, egregious lie and everyone involved should be taken to task and reprimanded.
We need more articles about 3D printing, drones, and SystemD plz. Thanks in advance!
Some (but not all) parts of the headline are mostly not entirely unlike parsable English
You could watch Thomas Sanladerer for 16h48m while he builds a Prusa i3 Clone from low-cost parts bought on AliExpress:
Part 1 (2h40m)
Part 2 (2h27m)
Part 3 (2h55m)
Part 4 (2h08m)
Part 5 (2h37m)
Part 6 (4h01m)
#DeleteFacebook
The cake is a lie.
#DeleteFacebook
And likely they used the same primitive phishing methods to get them. The End.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Well, it would be a nasty lesson, but still a lesson. Don't trust random online services with anything sensitive.
Ezekiel 23:20
Articles on computer programming per se have only been a small part of Slashdot content in the decades that I have been a member. "News for Nerds" has always included a much wider range of nerdly interests. There have always been much better places for articles about the nitty gritty aspects of programming.
"2) Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and/or Twitter" Those companies between them dominate the IT-verse, so the majority of significant IT-related stories are likely to feature them to some degree. Other companies are mentioned when they do something newsworthy; just in the last couple of pages of stories, I see SixXS, Intel, Uber and WikiLeaks, all not on your list.
And there are still so many ding dongs that keep naked pics of themselves an other sensitive information in the cloud. Just carry your dick pics in attache case to easily hand out to stranger, like a normal person.Sheesh.
Head over to SoylentNews. Very little politics and actual tech/hacker stuff. Plus they even have more creative trolls.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
It was probably a pastry. Fags are more likely to eat anointed pastries for obvious reasons.
email addresses and plain-text passwords, separated by a colon
Always have a colon in your passwords!
Speaking of shitty submissions...
"Some Of Hacker Group's Claim Of Having Access To 250M iCloud Account Aren't False"
should be either
"Some Of Hacker Group's Claims Of Having Access To 250M iCloud Account Aren't False"
or
"Some Of Hacker Group's Claim Of Having Access To 250M iCloud Account isn't False"
No go mod up some of my submissions if you want some variety.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Apple could automatically reset EVERYONE'S passwords, and then send them an email telling them to change their passwords before they log in again. If Apple does this, they can avoid having to pay a ransom. Also, Apple will owe Anonymous Coward 50% of what they would have paid to these terrorists that threatened them.
Gawd, I can remember when /. started as an alt-right political religious discussion forum.
Good times back then with all of the swearing and "not-nice" speech, it was a great incubator
for individuals to ratchet up the hostile to any living thing atmosphere we all enjoyed and loved.
Great place for the less dominate sex, too. But, then z-net bought them out and turned it into
this news-for-nerds site which offers no hope for humanity. How I miss the olde days!
CAP === 'playtime'
It's possible that Apple wants all the @me email domains to go away, as well as an opportunity to force device owners to upgrade. If your device were to be wiped remotely, good luck finding compatible apps anymore. Apple no longer signs iOS 8 and I don't think versions of 9 any more. This would be detrimental to iPhone 5 devices and below such as iPad 2. Basically, eliminating 32-bit. Most, if any of these devices are not covered by a warranty anymore. It's more than likely that Apple would only be held accountable for the iCloud account and not the device.
For the 'cream' filling?
You insensitive clod.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
It seems like this would be pretty easy for Apple to prevent. They know this is coming, and they control the servers that would initiate the remote wipes. If they suddenly saw 250 million requests for remotely wiping devices, why would they actually carry those out?
I am debating in talking my boss into a company wide email (that 90% of people will ignore) to reset iphone passwords. Or just making up a sign explaining what happened and putting out side my cube when the phones start resetting..
Obviously the hackers are going to give out accounts they've verified. You've been scammed.
We don't talk NEARLY enough about grabbing pussy.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
*gasp* you forgot Uber in your item #2 that contains almost everything technical in the world.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
but STILL need people shilling for them here...