A good example of why I try to keep anything I consider really important out of iCloud entirely! (That's quite hard with Apple's various dark patterns to boost

A good example of why I try to keep anything I consider really important out of iCloud entirely! (That's quite hard with Apple's various dark patterns to boost iCloud usage & lock-in.) But yes - it looks to me like dishonest actors managed to get the device out of my "iCloud account device list" without my permission, and thus evade the "provisioning / device lock".