Originally Posted by
allegro
You know, here's the thing I don't get about this: About a month ago, my phone suddenly started reporting that it couldn't retrieve my iCloud email. I checked, and this was consistent on all of my devices (2 iPads, iMac, etc.). Sure enough, I was locked out of my iCloud account. I called Apple, and the Apple tech dude asked me some security questions that I probably answered about 10 years ago. I failed to answer 2 of the 3 EXACTLY (what was the first album I bought, what was the first concert I attended, what was my first car) so then he asked me my credit card number. I actually had that correct. He still would not let me into my account, I had to wait 72 full hours to access my own account, and he would not change the password to my account. Which means, if I had been hacked somebody else had access to my account and I could not stop them. So he says "well, did you get an email warning?" I said, dude, I can't access my email. He didn't understand this. I immediately went into every account I had that used that iCloud email address, changed it to another Gmail account that has, like, 3 levels of security, I set up a random password generator and changed my passwords on everything, etc. When I finally got access to my iCloud account, it looked fine, and I still don't know what happened (the 2nd Apple tech dude I called suggested that maybe GMAIL caused it, wtf, eye roll). But, knowing Apple's "72 hour lockdown policy" the iCloud hack seems like maybe there was something else going on in addition to this. They're saying a Python script for Find My iPhone but it seems to be worse. They're finding DELETED photos?