Bangalore: Rated as the next big thing in the tech world, Apple’s iCloud does more than just storing the content. With a whole lot of services that varies from emails, calendar, contacts, ‘Find my iPhone’ and cloud storage- the iCloud is considered as the most compelling and consumer oriented cloud computing service available today. With a single username and password, user’s can store all the data and the contents they want into the cloud platform. But this is the same reason why Apple’s iCloud is considered to be dangerous.

Former journalist for Gizmodo and former contributing editor to Wired magazine, Mat Honan remembers how hackers gained access to his iCloud account and caused devastation. “At 4:50 PM, someone got into my iCloud account, reset the password and sent the confirmation message about the reset to the trash. My password was a 7 digit alphanumeric that I didn’t use elsewhere. When I set it up, years and years ago, that seemed pretty secure at the time. But it’s not. Especially given that I’ve been using it for, well, years and years. My guess is they used brute force to get the password, and then reset it to do the damage to my devices.”

Honan also said that he had a backup in his Gmail which had the same password as the iCloud account. It took just couple of minutes for them to hack into his Gmail account, resulting in a notifying message that confirmed ‘a successful ‘password change. What followed was total devastation as the hackers cleaned Honan’s iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air, with no leftovers.