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"Apple has said it is &amp;quot;actively investigating&amp;quot; whether a security weakness in its iCloud service helped hackers obtain intimate photos of several celebrities leaked over the weekend. The move comes in light of reports that stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst may have had their iCloud accounts hacked by an anonymous party.  &amp;quot;We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating this report,&amp;quot; an Apple spokesperson told Re/code. A piece of software called iBrute has been named as a potential link to the alleged attack, which exploited a vulnerability in Apple&amp;#039;s Find My iPhone service until yesterday, reports The Next Web. As Apple had no limit on the number of password guesses, the malicious script could be used to make multiple attempts at a fast rate until the correct password was identified.  However, the company apparently patched the flaw within the last 24 hours as the service now has a five attempt limit. There is currently no evidence to suggest some or all of images were taken from iCloud, although the FBI has said it is &amp;quot;addressing the matter&amp;quot;. The source of the leak has claimed to have obtained as many as 60 private images of Lawrence, whose representatives have confirmed the authenticity of the images. Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice have both dismissed images which appear to show them as fakes. Those who publish the images online have been threatened with legal action against them. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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