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11-09-2013, 09:12 PM | #1 |
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Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
Ok, so my MIL has always used a Mac email address for her primary email (they have only ever had Mac computers for the last 15ish years). Well, last week she noticed she couldn't get into her email. So she called and tried to get it reset (after all failed attempts at doing so online) and couldn't answer any of her security questions correctly- SHE was giving the correct answers, but apparently her answers had already been changed by the hacker. So they said they could send a new password to her alternate email address, which was a Hotmail account. She went to that account and it has been hacked too, apparently in Taiwan since that's the language it is all in now when she goes to it. Security questions there were changed, too.
She has made numerous attempts with Apple to fix this and they've basically told her there's nothing else they can do because they can't verify her identity. She even asked if she could go into her Apple store and verify that in person (LOL) and they said no. She is so frustrated tha they're basing their security on a system that is NOT secure. She even asked to just have the accounts deleted so that she didn't have to worry as much about hackers getting into any other accounts and accessing any personal or financial information that way, and they won't even do that. Is this REALLY how it ends? She's been a paying customer for Apple for years, too. But she has no idea what to do about this. My FIL is really concerned too but neither of them have any idea how to go about fixing this since the Mac people are basically saying "tough cookies."
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11-09-2013, 10:14 PM | #2 |
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
Wow, that is horrible. I don't know anything about Mac but hopefully someone who does will see this.
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11-09-2013, 10:19 PM | #3 |
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
that doesn't seem right and it doesn't seem like the CS Apple is known for Did she have anything set up with her phone? They could verify the phone number. There have to be other ways to verify her
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11-09-2013, 10:22 PM | #4 |
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
Here is some informational sites:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403134,00.asp
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22846061#22846061 Not much help, but maybe you will find something in this forum.
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11-09-2013, 10:25 PM | #5 |
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
And my guess is her Apple account was able to be hacked because her hotmail account was hacked. I cannot imagine how else they could have hacked an Apple account - it really is a secure system (half the time I need help getting into my own account ) But if she had emails with info about her account in the hotmail account they might have used that
I hope someone with more tech knowledge can help.
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
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It's a bummer because we get what Apple is saying- that they can't guaruntee she is who she says she is since she doesn't provide them the NOW correct info since it's been changed. BUT that's hardly fair in this situation, and with her being a loyal Apple customer for so many years you'd think they'd be able to- or at least ATTEMPT to- do something!!!
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11-10-2013, 09:34 AM | #7 |
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
I would have her escalate it to supervisors and managers and to whoever can help her and not stop until they do
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11-10-2013, 06:02 PM | #8 |
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I would have her make an appointment at the Genius Bar and see what they say. Have her bring a photo ID just in case that will help, as well as any receipts she has that show her Apple ID and/or Apple products she has purchased. It's a shot in the dark but they might be able to at least advise her.
If that doesn't work, wrote her story up, including everything you tried to do to resolve this and Apple's response (along with date/time of conversation and rep she spoke with) and send it into MacWorld. They can either advise her and/or put the pressure on Apple. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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11-10-2013, 08:23 PM | #9 |
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
I would have thought the opposite. I don't have a Mac, but my understanding is that Apple is one of the more insecure places to have your credit card number on file because their security is so lax, and there's no recourse if that gets hacked - but iTunes requires you to keep that information on file to maintain an account.
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11-10-2013, 08:42 PM | #10 |
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
I do know that when she switched to Mac in the years past, it was because they supposedly had better security. But obviously it's hit or miss now. She also doesn't have an itunes account, but I'm assuming her mac email address is still related to her apple i.d. right?
Thanks everyone!! Will update if she figures this out!!!
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11-10-2013, 09:35 PM | #11 |
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
If the mac address is what she set up her Apple ID with, yes, it's still connected. If her credit card is connected to the ID, she needs to contact her credit card company. She'll probably have to get a new number to protect her from charges.
My brother went through this. I'll see if he can remember what he ended up doing. His started with his alternate email being hacked. He discovered that was hacked, then the next day couldn't get into his Apple account. I'm pretty positive he has the same account now, though, so he must have fixed it. (He had hundreds of dollars in apps and games on his iTunes account.)
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11-11-2013, 08:47 AM | #12 |
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Re: Any techy gals here? Email hacked, security ?'s changed...
Does having different passwords for accounts prevent this kind of thing from happening (where one hacked account gives access to other accounts), or not really?
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11-11-2013, 01:42 PM | #13 |
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Not really if one account is linked to another. They just click on the forgot password link and reset it.
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