Apple Temporarily Suspends Over-The-Phone Password Resets After Hack

A few days back, Wired’s Mat Honan described a terrible incident in which his iCloud account was hacked, and his Apple devices remote wiped. The hackers had exploited gaps in Apple and Amazon’s phone-based security system to destroy reporter’s digital life.
Wired reports that Apple has temporarily suspended the over-the-phone Apple ID password reset process to prevent more such hacks now that the method has become public.

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