West Virginia's attorney general alleges that iCloud's end-to-end encryption is being used to store and distribute child sexual abuse material.

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.

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

The lawsuit alleges that the platform reduces friction for those looking to maintain large collections of illicit material and enables repeated access and redistribution without manual file handling.

West Virginia becomes first state to sue Apple over allegations the tech giant allows predators to hide child abuse material in iCloud storage systems.

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.