Apple user Hacked hard

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Apple user Hacked hard

Postby viking60 » 07 Aug 2012, 00:19

Wired-journalist Matt Honan was using the Apple cloud and Apples e-mail system. All nicely integrated and connected to cloud services. One day Honan found his iPhone and his MacBook (It was re-formated) and his Google and Twitter account hacked.
Scary indeed:
And the hacker apparently got in via Apple tech support!
I know how it was done now. Confirmed with both the hacker and Apple. It wasn’t password related. They got in via Apple tech support and some clever social engineering that let them bypass security questions. Apple has my Macbook and is trying to recover the data. I’m back in all my accounts that I know I was locked out of. Still trying to figure out where else they were.

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