How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

Honan, M. (2012). How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking. Wired.

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  • The 2012 takeover of Wired writer Mat Honan's digital life

    This sourceHonan's account of the two recovery flows exploited, Amazon exposing the last four digits of a card on file and Apple's support line accepting a billing address plus those digits to issue a temporary iCloud password. The downstream cascade Honan records - the Twitter password reset and the deletion of the Google account, plus the remote wiping of his iPhone, iPad and MacBook through iCloud's Find My tool.

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