Hackers set 2015 with iCloud hack

Hacker news story:

http://thehackernews.com/2015/01/iDict-icloud-password-hacking-tool.html

It looks like the hacker “Pr0x13” has released a password hacking tool at GitHub that allows hackers to break into any iCloud account – thus giving them access to iPhone user account data.

Tool is called iDict: https://github.com/Pr0x13/iDict/

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GitHub is a repository of software development projects by various programmers around the world.

On the Other hand(OTOH) – I wonder if The Hacker News read he readme:

I’m not responsible for any damage done whatsoever to anyones iCloud account or iDevice. I Didn’t exploit any accounts while writing this, as well i didn’t even test it out (Hope it works lol). I merely observed and reported.

So this program may not work, although I suspect someone at apple should check this, or at least an iPhone programmer.

His password list is rather rudimentary: https://github.com/Pr0x13/iDict/blob/master/files/wordlist.txt

This is typical of GitHub projects, these are not polished and tested projects.

But I suspect that another hacker may take this work and further the hacking into something more useful (to the hackers) and in some time create a real hack….

 

And so now you have seen how the underworld writes code (indirectly).

I suspect in a few months we will see iPhone accounts being hacked in the news.

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