Mat Honan, a senior writer at Wired
and a former senior reporter for Gizmodo.com, learned the hard way on
Friday evening that hackers had taken over his entire online life. They
took over his Twitter account. They cleaned out his entire Google
account and Gmail inbox. His iPhone, iPad, and MacBook were completely
wiped. He has lost years of files and, more important, photos of his
daughter.
"I was in my daughter's bedroom and I was playing with her and I saw the
phone power down. At first I thought the battery died. I went and
plugged in the phone and when I did that I got the 'activate your phone'
screen," Honan told ABC News in a phone interview. Honan then grabbed
his MacBook and saw alerts that his Google account password was
incorrect. His MacBook then powered itself off. When he grabbed his iPad
he got the same screen...
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