14 DAY TRIAL // The celeb photo hack that surfaced and captured media attention since the beginning of the month, prompted Apple to implement a stricter security policy and deliver push notifications related to iCloud access to users.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced some of the new measures on Friday, in an interview for the Wall Street Journal, and said that they would be enforced in two weeks.
At the beginning of the month, signing into iCloud from a new device could be done without the owner receiving any notification.
However, the new standards have been implemented, at least partially at the moment, and a notification is delivered when the service is accessed from web browsers.
The subject line of the Apple email is quite clear and says, “Your Apple ID was used to sign in to iCloud via a web browser.”
In our case, it took about ten minutes to receive the alert, which informed that our Apple ID was used to sign into iCloud. This is plenty of time for an attacker to make changes to the account that could lead to hijacking it.
If the action occurred without your consent, the advice is to reset the password for the account.
Hacking the celebrity accounts was an event that drove Apple towards adopting a better security policy for its users, and also made users come up with jokes about iCloud; you can have a few laughs by checking them out.