Apple has plans to begin sending email security alerts to iCloud users in light of recent hacks which made headlines when nude photos of celebrities were compromised from their personal iCloud
accounts. Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal that hackers had gained access to the celebrity iCloud accounts by correctly answering security questions in order to
access passwords or by obtaining a user's IDs and passwords via spam emails. In other words, none of the data was leaked from the company's servers. To prevent future issues, Apple has plans to send
out emails and texts whenever an iCloud user tries to change an account password, restore iCloud data to a new device or when a device logs into an account for the first time. This will alert users
when there is activity going on surrounding their account.
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