Mat Honan details the Amazon and Apple security flaws that let hackers wipe his MacBook | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - 0 views
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Doug Peterson on 07 Aug 12"Late Friday, Wired writer Mat Honan ran into a digital buzzsaw as his iCloud, Gmail and Twitter accounts were compromised in rapid succession. The hackers did a tremendous amount of collateral damage along the way, spewing racist and homophobic tweets on Honan's account plus the Gizmodo Twitter account (linked to his). Worse, they proceeded to wipe all the data from his iPhone, iPad and his Mac laptop via Find My iPhone and Find My Mac."