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> Google remains the last tech giant that hasn't had a major breach

Have Amazon or Apple had a major breach?

(I do think Google takes security atypically seriously, though)



Amazon has a history of employees within the company leaking large sets of customer data, or using their internal access to target vulnerabilities in customer AWS setups. As far as I know they haven’t had any breaches by non-employees, but major internal data use issues are still security problems.

Apple only has if you count exploits that allow for hacking Macbooks and Iphones as far as I know (and I wouldn’t count that personally).


> using their internal access to target vulnerabilities in customer AWS setups

citation needed


I assume they're misunderstanding/misrepresenting the CapitalOne breach.


iCloud has been hacked more than once hasn’t it?


If by hacked you mean high profile users/public figures without two factor enabled and using passwords that could be guessed by just browsing their social media footprint... then sure, they were "hacked"


I believe they were phished.


I don't think there was a technical vulnerability , my understanding was there some social engineering and poor security defaults that led to some high profile accounts being compromised.


It was a technical problem. They didn’t throttle password guesses.


Yes poor design from Apple, However if your account had a long random passphrase and not something from your life[1] would it then have not been possible to compromise right ?

I mean if users followed best practices it won't have been possible [2]

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[1] which could be known more easily than if you are a celebrity

[2] Not trying to defend Apple here or absolve them of responsibility, but trying to differentiate a product hack (design choice and social engineering) from a pure technical compromise like a RCE or speculative execution which is developer purview and more interesting.


Ah yes, blame the user!




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