Talk:Seddie/@comment-14284535-20140902143346

This is probably a bad password someone had along with a weakness in Apple's security against a straight-forward brute force password attack. It was patched three days ago. According to several security people, this could just be the beginning.

Some info on defending yourself:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/what-jennifer-lawrence-can-teach-you-about-cloud-security/

http://www.zdnet.com/after-alleged-icloud-breach-heres-how-to-secure-your-personal-cloud-7000033177/

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4865

http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-security/apple-icloud-breach-proves-wozniaks-point-about-cloud-risks-199450