Yesterday I told you that the Chinese government initiated a MITM attack to steal the usernames and passwords of Chinese iCloud users, intercepting their traffic to Apple's servers and redirecting it to its own website. As the issue affects almost all Chinese people who use a popular Chinese web browser, Apple today confirmed that traffic to iCloud is being intercepted in China, assuring users that its servers have not been compromised.
Apple said on Tuesday it is aware of 'intermittent organized network attacks' on users attempting to sign-in on iClould.com, reported Dow Jones. However, the company assured that iCloud servers were not compromised. Apple added that the attempted attacks don't affect iCloud sign-in on mobile and macs that are running the most up to date version of OS X.
According to CNBC.com, Apple has not directly accused the Chinese government of organizing this attack, but since the traffic is being redirected directly from the government-controlled national hub, things are clear. Apple has little to do in this situation, Microsoft also being affected by an attack that the Chinese government does not bother to mask in any way, it being one of the largest and most controversial launched so far, data security in China being seriously questioned.
