[OT] My iCloud account has been hacked.

[Andre Garzia]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Jerry Jensen <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:

> I've seen a lot of similar troubles lately. Most are from aol, yahoo,
> hotmail, msn, etc. free accounts that seem like their passwords have been
> guessed.Changing passwords has always stopped the trouble. Maybe those
> providers are favorite hunting grounds because there are so many abandoned
> or forgotten accounts.
>
> But not iCloud! Eek!
>
> Could it be that all this is a result of WiFi password sniffing? Andre, I
> would think your password was not easy to guess.
>

That password was rubbish but other guys with random passwords as long as
15 chars have also been hacked. I don't use unencrypted connections, so
WiFi sniffing is out of the question, my router is a top grade mikrotik, I
think it is better than cisco.

it is ugly, an knowing apple, no one will ever know what happened. The
users will always be blamed. Also, I reinstalled Lion two days ago so this
was basically a fresh install.



>
> Ouch!
> Jerry
>
> On May 18, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > As some here may know, long time ago I went by the online alias of
> Soapdog
> > and my email was soapdog at mac.com. I created that email when iTools and
> > MacOS 9 were new things and went thru dotMac, mobileMe and now iCloud.
> Some
> > hours ago, I received a call from my father saying that my account was
> > spamming him. I decided to check and indeed, my account had a spam email
> in
> > the outbox for every contact in the iCloud contact list. This was not
> > spoofing, someone actually sent email thru my account. Keep in mind that
> I
> > am paranoid. The iCloud is only accessed by my iDevices and my Mac box. I
> > don't use mail.app. I checked the headers in the message and it appears
> > that the message was sent using the mobileMe webmail client from Japan.
> >
> > I went to the online apple forums and saw that I am not alone in my
> > problem. There are other users facing the same thing so I suspect that
> some
> > amount of iCloud accounts have been hacked at the source. My machine is
> > free of virus and trojans and no one has my credentials. I already
> changed
> > my password.
> >
> > So, I apologize for the emails that some of you guys received from my old
> > account. For those using iCloud, I tell you to check your account, you
> may
> > have been hacked too.
> >
> > Sorry
> > andre
> >
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