How my brother's iCloud account was stolen

Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by Gigachad on Monday January 16, 2023 @09:03PM (#34408282)

I don't think there is anything they can do when someone is being held at gunpoint and told to hand over their phone and password.

Perhaps they could prompt users to keep local backups of their icloud data rather than pretending it's impossible to lose info in the cloud.

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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by jrnichols on Monday January 16, 2023 @09:49PM (#34408587)

> someone is being held at gunpoint and told to hand over their phone and password.

The article doesn't say that happened, though. It just says "My brother got his iPhone stolen at gunpoint." If the victim had been made to hand over his password, that's a very very huge detail the blogger did not include.

I had my phone stolen from me at Pride in SF and went through a lot of the same steps. The thieves yanked the SIM immediately. I was able to follow the phone as it hopped onto public wifi networks (mostly at stores) that I had joined before. it finally wound up in Shenzhen, China.

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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by Gigachad on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:18PM (#34409075)

How else could they have swapped the phone number on the iCloud account? That’s the only part of this story which is interesting.

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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by limitedsupply on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:43PM (#34409233)

They phished the password in a separate attack.

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