iCloud Accounts May Have Been Hacked

In the last few days, several iCloud users have stated on Apple’s forums that their iCloud accounts have been sending out spam, and appear to have been hacked. User øivindfromoslo wrote, “never used the iCloud e-mail account for anything (and I hate that apple forces it on you) but suddenly everyone in my contact list have received spam mails from that @me.com address.”