Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account

Robadob writes "Yesterday a hacker gained access to Mat Honan's (An editor at Gizmodo) Apple iCloud account allowing the attacker to reset his iPhone, iPad, and Macbook. The attacker was also able to gain access to Google and Twitter accounts by sending password recovery emails. At the time this was believed to be down to a brute-force attack, however today it has come out that the hacker used social engineering to convince Apple customer support to allow him to bypass the security questions on the account."

Comments

Is it too hard to read the summary?

[MrEricSir]

Reading the article is hard, I know. But come on, at LEAST read to the end of the summary.

Re:My answers..

[icebike]

Sure, just read that string over a the phone to a tech support operator in India some time, moron.

Re:They Know Best

[GNious]

I prefer the solution at webex - I have a weblink, that opens to a page showing my current password in cleartext.... ...others should really implement this, seeing how userfriendly it is!

Re:My answers..

[gmhowell]

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First pets name: sfjgksrl8kjdgjoijOIU*(U*&^&Tiuhkjlmkjniuhi8hiuh

City born in: KJNBJKNJKN(&*(&*Y*(njklKNLNLKJ8IJOkijYJ Nkj nTFe44esijaiojT^&*%*&*T(&

I see you are Welsh.

Re:Oh for the love of... EDITORS, please EDIT!

[gmhowell]

I may not be one of the editors, but I find myself making some of the same mistakes the editor made.

Which is fine, since your job title probably doesn't include the word 'editor'.