My computer my iphone and.
Rise of hackers mat honan twitter.
The target of the attack was honan s twitter account but it could have been much worse.
Hackers gathered data from various sources to wreak online havoc.
Earlier this week mat honan a senior writer for wired watched as his digital identity was taken from him and then systematically deleted by hackers who had cracked into his icloud account.
For the hackers a trophy.
By taking advantage of alarmingly relaxed security policies at apple and amazon hackers were able to breach honan s twitter google and icloud accounts.
And to keep this prize with just a few clicks they destroyed his digital life.
His iphone ipad and macbook were completely wiped.
Synthetic fraud schemes are on the rise thanks to the abundance of security breaches recently including.
They cleaned out his entire google account and gmail inbox.
The ultimate prize was his twitter account mat.
Two million german vodaphone customers credit card numbers from home depot and the apple icloud hack.