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Curious what others think that Apple should have done in this situation. Social engineering and providing stolen information is a tactic that's been around for
by jrnichols 4y ago
Curious what others think that Apple should have done in this situation. Social engineering and providing stolen information is a tactic that's been around for years.
What are they supposed to do? Believe everyone that calls up with "I got locked out?"
I kind of wish that they had a way to lock possibly stolen accounts and allow people to verify their ID at an Apple Store or something, though.
- Gigachad 4y agoI don't think there is anything they can do when someone is being held at gunpoint and told to hand over their phone and password. Perhaps they could prompt users to keep local backups of their icloud data rather than pretending it's impossible to lose info in the cloud.
- jrnichols 4y ago> someone is being held at gunpoint and told to hand over their phone and password. The article doesn't say that happened, though. It just says "My brother got his iPhone stolen at gunpoint." If the victim had been made to hand over his password, that's a very very huge detail the blogger did not include. I had my phone stolen from me at Pride in SF and went through a lot of the same steps. The thieves yanked the SIM immediately. I was able to follow the phone as it hopped onto public wifi networks (mostly at stores) that I had joined before. it finally wound up in Shenzhen, China.
- Gigachad 4y agoHow else could they have swapped the phone number on the iCloud account? That’s the only part of this story which is interesting.
- limitedsupply 4y agoThey phished the password in a separate attack.
- operator-name 4y agoChanging important account information (such as a phone number) should have a recovery period by default.