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> He used similar methods to access Mr Brennan’s AOL account and eventually Gamble was able to access his emails, contacts, his iCloud storage account and his w
by watmough 9y ago
> He used similar methods to access Mr Brennan’s AOL account and eventually Gamble was able to access his emails, contacts, his iCloud storage account and his wife’s iPad remotely.
Too crazy.
- throwaway080383 9y agoRight? Who still uses AOL?
- tgragnato 9y agoIs there something similar to Google's Advanced Protection for iCloud?
- boulos 9y agoAfter the iCloud celebrity "hacking" scandals they added phone-based 2FA and now have "your iOS device can be trusted": https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915 though I don't know if the security question reset path is closed. There was a small flare up earlier this year about people hijacking cell phone numbers, which then of course let's you take over all sorts of accounts since you can defeat the (relatively) poor security of SMS-based OTP.