Apple Touch ID Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack iCloud Accounts

Apple earlier this year fixed a security vulnerability in iOS and macOS that could have potentially allowed an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a user’s iCloud account.

Uncovered in February by Thijs Alkemade, a security specialist at IT security firm Computest, the flaw resided in Apple’s implementation of TouchID (or FaceID) biometric feature that authenticated users to log in to