Mat Honan, a reporter for Wired magazine, has been involved in an unfortunate situation. A hacker entered its icloud account and from there changed the account password and the email of your Gmail and Mac Ten minutes later the attacker remotely erased iPhone content of the reporter, after all he had on your iPhone and then all of your MacBook Air. All this happened because of a blunder from Apple.
Mediated only fifteen minutes from the entrance to the hacker's account
of Mat Honan icloud and the elimination of all content on their
devices. A few minutes also the journalist's Twitter profile was tapped.
Hanon said in a Tumblr post of how it came to that situation, which
cost him a scare and not yet known whether any of the information stored
can be retrieved. Alarms jumped Friday afternoon, at 4:50 PM local time, but can not say that the journalist was really worried when suddenly show your iPhone off.
A hacker had entered its icloud and from there managed to wreak havoc
on different devices and online accounts associated with the platform. How could this be done with an alphanumeric password that was not repeated anywhere else? It was not a purely virtual data theft.
The attacker called Apple technical support by posing as Hanon. Using a social-engineering software being a public figure and known-could answer all the questions of safety for the operator of the company you suggested. As a reward he was given access to icloud account of the journalist.
When the false Hanon entered the online platform Apple could change the
password for it, along with Gmail - the email associated recovery - and
the Mac mail In just five minutes erased the contents of the iPhone, iPad and the MacBook.
What's more, the Twitter account was also accessed Hanon.
Not only that but the profile on the site Gizmodo microblogging -
associated time back to the account hacked - was also involved, a story
that appeared in several online media.
