The lawsuit said the platform made it easier to maintain and repeatedly access large collections of illicit material.

Apple's iCloud and iOS services allowed users to share child sex abuse materials, West Virginia's attorney general said in a suit filed Thursday.

The lawsuit said the platform made it easier to maintain and repeatedly access large collections of illicit material.

West Virginia’s attorney general alleges Apple failed to prevent child sexual abuse material from being stored and shared through iOS and iCloud.

West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Apple, accusing the company of allowing its iCloud storage service to be used to distribute child sexual abuse material and failing to adopt stronger detection measures.

West Virginia’s attorney general sued Apple on Thursday, accusing the iPhone maker of allowing its iCloud service to become what the company’s internal communications called the “greatest platform for distributing child porn.

West Virginia's Attorney General JB McCuskey today announced a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of knowingly allowing iCloud to be used to distribute and store child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

West Virginia in a new lawsuit is accusing Apple of knowingly permitting its iCloud platform to be used to store and distribute child sexual abuse material. The state’s attorney general, John McCuskey,