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Title: Amazon, Apple security measures factors in journalist's hacked iCloud account
Post by: HCK on August 07, 2012, 07:00:45 am
Amazon, Apple security measures factors in journalist's hacked iCloud account
         


A combination of Amazon's credit card record keeping and Apple's user authentication requirements amounted to a relatively easy "social engineering" hack that wreaked havoc on Wired writer Mat Honan's iCloud and Twitter accounts.

 



         

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