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That still rasies some questions. You're either implying Apple allow enough login attempts for brute force against their live web services to be possible, or that someon somehow got hold of the password hash.

Without knowing the guy, I strongly suspect a reused password that was exposed somewhere other than Apple/iCloud. Anyone want to bet against this Gizmodo guy's password being in the Gawker password dump?




I guess I owe @mat an apology here - it seems Apple's customer service was at fault, not @mat's password reuse practices…




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