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Apple iCloud new target for Hackers

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Apple’s iCloud Under Attack By Hackers Some iCloud registrants are beginning to notice spam email in their Sent folders, despite having nothing to do with the unsolicited messages ending up in their friends’ inboxes. They believe they’ve been hacked, and they have taken to Apple Support Communities to seek answers. AppleInsider points out to a  couple of small threads on Apple’s forums where several iCloud subscribers are signaling a potential attack on the company’s servers. "I never use my @me email for anything, and I guarantee someone didn't break into the account by guessing my password (or brute force methods) — it's a pseudoly randomly generated string of 15 numbers, letters (upper and lower case) and symbols (I worked in IT for many years and am perhaps overly zealous about password security, which makes memorization a real pain)," one person wrote. “I’m worried that Apple's iCloud servers themselves got hacked, as I see there are a few o...