Senators ask Apple, Home Depot for information on breaches

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2606965/senators-ask-apple-home-depot-for-information-on-breaches.html

By Grant Gross
IDG News Service
Sep 11, 2014

A recent data breach at retailer Home Depot and a leak of celebrity nude 
pictures from Apple's iCloud service raise questions about the companies' 
data security practices, two U.S. senators said Thursday.

Sens. John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and Claire 
McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, asked Apple and Home Depot for information 
on their security practices. The senators, senior members of the Senate 
Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, have asked the companies 
to provide the committee with detailed information about the causes of the 
breaches.

A series of new Apple products, including the Apple Watch and its iCloud 
Drive, will lead to more sensitive customer information stored in the 
cloud, the senators wrote in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

"We are interested to know what security protocols Apple has adopted to 
maximize the safety and privacy of your customers who store information on 
your company's popular iCloud," the senators wrote. "We understand that 
the focused nature of the attack on specific iCloud accounts is very 
different from the massive data breaches that affected other companies, 
but nonetheless indicate potential vulnerabilities in your cloud security 
protocols that were exploited by hackers."

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