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19 May, 2017 | MacRumors - https://www.macrumors.com/

Russian software company ElcomSoft today claimed in a blog post that iCloud notes marked as deleted are being stored on Apple's servers well past the advertised 30-day period they are kept in the "Recently Deleted" folder.

19 May, 2017 | TheMacObserver - https://www.macobserver.com/

Files deleted from Apple’s Notes app shouldn’t be recoverable after 30 days, but the security and data forensics company Elcomsoft found they could access records that were deleted months—or even more than a year—ago. That sounds pretty bad, but recovering those files requires some pretty specific elements, including knowing your iCloud login and password.

19 May, 2017 | Tom's Hardware - http://www.tomshardware.com/

Users’ deleted notes should completely disappear from Apple’s servers after 30 days. However, ElcomSoft, a Russian company developing computer and mobile forensic tools, discovered that the deleted notes could still be extracted from Apple’s servers after the 30 days had passed, even though they were no longer visible to the users.

10 February, 2017 | The Register - https://www.theregister.co.uk/

On Thursday, Russian computer forensics software biz Elcomsoft said that its forensic software was able to recover Safari browser history records that had been stored in iCloud and erased, including the date the URLs were last visited and when the deletion occurred.

9 February, 2017 | MacRumors - https://www.macrumors.com/

iCloud was caught storing deleted browser history by software company Elcomsoft, which develops cracking tools for extracting protected data from iOS devices. Speaking to Forbes, Elcomsoft CEO Vladimir Katalov explained that the company had been able to retrieve "deleted" browser history dating back more than a year.

9 February, 2017 | Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/

Elcomsoft chief Vladimir Katalov told FORBES the iPhone maker kept a separate iCloud record, titled "tombstone," in which deleted web visits were stored, ostensibly for syncing across devices. Katalov told me he came across the issue "by accident" when he was looking through the Safari history on his own iPhone. When he took Elcomsoft's Phone Breaker software to extract data from the linked iCloud account, he found "deleted" records going back a year. (Apple calls them "cleared" in Safari, not "deleted").

17 December, 2016 | The Intercept - https://theintercept.com/

Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification.

17 November, 2016 | Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/

Apple has a hidden feature for you in its iPhones: call logs going back as far as four months are stored in near real-time in the iCloud. That’s the warning today from a Russian provider of iPhone hacking tools, Elcomsoft, which claimed the feature was automatic and there was no way to turn it off bar shutting down iCloud Drive altogether.

17 November, 2016 | the Inquirer - http://www.theinquirer.net/

APPLE USERS are having their call records stored in the company’s iCloud servers in a way that can be extracted by third parties. Russian software house ElcomSoft has revealed that it has found a way to extract the data in near real time, for anyone targeting a phone with iOS 9 or above. The company has released an app called ElcomSoft Phone Breaker 6.20, capable of performing its nefarious mischief even on a locked, PIN-protected phone.

30 September, 2016 | PYMNTS - http://www.pymnts.com/

According to Elcomsoft, iOS 10 is highly susceptible to a “brute force attack,” where hackers automatically try a continuous number of password combinations until they unlock the right one. This vulnerability may provide an opportunity for hackers to steal credit card data, infiltrate backups and access Apple’s Keychain password manager, where passwords and other authentication data is stored.