Over the past few months to years a group of hackers or hacker has been getting into celeb icloud accounts and brute forcing password guessing by basically using the "find my iphone" app or some kind of exploit.
1. This should show that more and more data NEEDS higher levels of encryption.
If brute face was indeed used, how does encryption have anything to do with it? All this really does is reinforce the importance of secure passwords and the misplaced trust in technology.