The story at the link within the quote below about the epic hack of writer Mat Honan is chilling - please take care to back up all of your data regularly, change passwords often, make them complex, and don't use the same password over multiple accounts. If you are on the Cloud (Google, Microsoft, or Apple's), do the two-step verification described in the article below.
If you're an iPhone or iPad user (and who isn't?) you probably use iCloud. If you use iCloud, you probably (and should!) use Find My iPhone. If you use iCloud, you probably also use it to sync your email, calendars, contacts and photos between devices. Maybe even Documents and Data too.
If you use iCloud for any (or all) of the features above, you need to protect your iCloud account -- and the Apple ID behind it -- with all the tools at your disposal. After all, you don't want someone else reading your email or browsing your contacts and photos. Just ask Wired senior writer Mat Honan, who was victimized in an epic hack
enabled by compromising his Apple ID and Amazon accounts.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
