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100 million iCloud users spied by the Chinese Government

A report confirms that China is collecting private data of more that 100 million Apple iCloud users resident in the country with a man-in-the-middle attack. The Chinese Government has launched a new hacking campaign. The monitoring of Apple usersinformation could support the authorities to track the leaders of the Hong Kongs Umbrella Movement on the mainland. The number of iPhone users in China is 100 million, all potential targets of the Government: The attack point is the Chinese internet backbone, and that it is nationwide, which would lead us to be 100 percent sure that this is the work of the Chinese authorities.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/29447/intelligence/china-spied-icloud-users.html

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