Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook discussed user data security during a meeting with a top Chinese government official on Wednesday in Beijing.
The news was first reported by the official Xinhua news agency.
Cook's meeting comes days after a Chinese web monitoring group published a report claiming Apple users in China have been victims of a widespread attack by hackers looking for private user data stored on the iCloud service.
The group, Greatfire.org, said in their report that the Chinese government had something to do with the hack, a claim the government has strongly denied.
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Apple has not issued any public statements regarding the claim yet.
During a meeting on Wednesday in Zhongnanhai, the Beijing complex housing China's central government, Cook and Vice Premier Ma Kai exchanged views on "protection of users' information" as well as "strengthening cooperation and in information and communication fields," according to Xinhua's report.
Apple is "aware of intermittent organized network attacks using insecure certificates to obtain user information, and we take this very seriously," Trudy Muller, a spokeswoman for the Cupertino, Calif.-based company, said in a statement yesterday, according to Bloomberg.
Muller declined to comment on Greatfire's report that the attack was conducted by China-backed hackers.
Greatfire confirmed to Reuters that Apple seemed to have rerouted user data on Tuesday to circumvent the hack.
A successful attack on iCloud would allow access to data including messages, photos and contacts, Greatfire said. Customers use a trusted browser and enable two-step verification to mitigate the threat.
"If users ignored the security warning and clicked through to the Apple site and entered their user name and password, this information has now been compromised by the Chinese authorities," Greatfire said.
Apple customers will receive e-mails and other alerts on their iPhones and iPads if someone tries to change a password, log in from a new device or restore files, according to the security features announced in September.
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