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

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,

West Virginia’s attorney general filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing Apple of allowing its iCloud service to become what the company’s internal communications described as the “greatest platform for distributing child porn.

West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey has filed a lawsuit against Apple (AAPL) for allegedly not stopping the storing of child sex abuse material, or CSAM, on its iCloud platform. "Preserving the privacy of child predators is absolutely inexcusable.