Apple is calling on users to make broader everyday usage of end-to-end encryption, pointing to research the company commissioned showing a recent rise in data breaches. “Threats to consumer data stored in the cloud have grown dramatically [in the past year],” Apple says, announcing the independent study showing a rise in attacks on cloud platforms and other services, carried out so hackers can gain access to their customers’ files. If files stored on the cloud used end-to-end encryption, however, they only people specified by the owner would be able to see them, but not the providers of the we…