[LINK] Hacked with a series of bad/inadequate security measures

[Jan Whitaker]

If you're eating your wheatbix, put them down before reading this.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

Note the various fails along the way -- both human failures to follow 
procedures re security questions and the interrelationships of 
exposed information between major systems on Amazon and Apple. This 
was originally posted in 2012. Makes me wonder if the same state of 
affairs exists.

and here is the recovery story:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/mat-honan-data-recovery/all

Jan


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