Bloke gets hacked big style.Google, Twitter, Aoole ID, iPhone, iPad, MacBook wiped

[farout117]

true - I'm changing all my passwords from "passw0rd" to "pa55w0rd", that should do it

cracking idea

[Mose]

Melodramatic muppet. He's lucky they didn't do a great deal more damage.

[SupremeSpod]

Melodramatic muppet. He's lucky they didn't do a great deal more damage.

whs++;

He's a journalist, he's hyped up a situation that he brought upon himself.

[vetran]

ably assisted by a wide open security model supplied by the fanbois favourite vendor.


you would have thought that Apple would have run their security systems by a few experts before allowing remote wipe and chaining.

[Ignis Fatuus]

In short, the very four digits (of a credit card number) that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web are precisely the same ones that Apple considers secure enough to perform identity verification.

I do think that shows how ad hoc and poorly planned many security procedures are.

[Sysman]

Melodramatic muppet. He's lucky they didn't do a great deal more damage.

They could have used my e-mail accounts to gain access to my online banking, or financial service

Dunno what online banking he's using but I need a lot more than e.mail to get at mine.

[NickFitz]

ably assisted by a wide open security model supplied by the fanbois favourite vendor.

Yes, you'd expect better than that from Amazon and Apple.

you would have thought that Apple would have run their security systems by a few experts before allowing remote wipe and chaining.

Ah, just Apple getting the blame is it? Despite the fact that it was only Amazon's ludicrously insecure procedures that allowed them to hack Apple's system as the second step in the process?

[norrahe]

Dunno what online banking he's using but I need a lot more than e.mail to get at mine.

Cooperative bank used to have really crap security for their business banking, e-mail address/account number and password.

Not sure if they have improved it.

[vetran]

Yes, you'd expect better than that from Amazon and Apple.



Ah, just Apple getting the blame is it? Despite the fact that it was only Amazon's ludicrously insecure procedures that allowed them to hack Apple's system as the second step in the process?

good point they managed to get into Amazon's system as well, add a credit card and view the last 4 digits of another card a bit like every person who looks at a credit card receipt.

Now if they had been able to order a £100k of porn and deliver to another address then Amazon might have been in a worse state. But they didn't.

Apple only allowed them to remotely own all his apple devices.

[Sysman]

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