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> Specifically, on July 25, 2016, Kazzelbach created an e-mail account that mimicked the victim’s real e-mail address and within 10 minutes, changed the name on
by tedunangst 3y ago
> Specifically, on July 25, 2016, Kazzelbach created an e-mail account that mimicked the victim’s real e-mail address and within 10 minutes, changed the name on the victim’s Apple account to the fake e-mail address he had created. Two days later, Kazzelbach initiated a password reset, locking the victim out of the account which controlled certain settings on her iPhone, as well as access to the photos, music, and videos associated with her account.
He did what? How? This sounds extremely bad (in addition to the rest of the story).
- Dalewyn 3y ago>How? Social engineering is I believe the official term. Basically: Get customer support monkey on the line, insist you're holding the right banana until the monkey does your bidding. Every security mechanism known to man and monkey alike is susceptible to attacks on the customer support monkey.
- ImAnAmateur 3y agoThey were together for 6 months. He likely knew the information necessary, passwords or otherwise, to access her stuff.
- fallinghawks 3y agoWhen you have one person who's experienced with tech, it's easy for the one who isn't to lean on them for tech stuff. A relative of mine let her boyfriend set up everything, then later lost access to everything, as she hadn't kept track of passwords. It could have been a much more nasty situation if the breakup had been on very bad terms or if the bf was particularly vindictive.