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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    The passcode was not something that a random person would be able to guess. You're obviously a bit in the dark if you're not aware of the newish apple feature called stolen device protection which prevents AppleID changes happening unless you're on a "Home" Wi-Fi network or with some time...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    This is definitely a possibility although it was owner run and they lived on the premises and if anything like this ever came to light it would completely destroy their successful guest house which is worth more than what they stole off me. Also the people that were identified were an african...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    Didn't you originally say you managed to hack into an iPhone? Sounds pretty vulnerable to me if that's the case... Also this passcode vulnerability has been known for awhile now, hence Apple coming up with a solution to it recently...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    Exactly, I was super ignorant to the Apple ecosystem vulnerabilities until this happened. After getting hacked it forces you to find out more about security... It seems like lot of people are still naïve to this though. I now know that using something like Bitwarden is a huge step up in terms...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    I don't think you understand how this works. I have FaceID on both of my iPhones but will still regularly be asked to enter in my passcode, sometimes a few times a day. Seems it's relatively common: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254894364?sortBy=rank You clearly don't understand how...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    The difference is your high value accounts such as bank/crypto/shares/bitwarden passwords are not something you'd be entering into your phone multiple times whilst out in public. Whereas your phone has a much higher chance of being spotted so it really shouldn't then give the spy the ability...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    I have to enter my 6 digit pincode usually a few times a day, and often at night if I'm ever half asleep checking a notification. Not a chance do I want to be entering some complicated upper/lower case password with numbers and special characters. And then making a mistake and having to start...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    Yeah it's all on cold wallet now... Just hope I can keep hold of the seed phrases and/or the device for the next 10 years +
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    Re-read what I wrote. My assumption is that they spied my passcode whilst I was out at Eden on the Bay. They assumed I was a foreigner and took their chances that they would be able to get some value off my phone. Clever guys as they did manage to make quite a bit. They withdrew R60k off my...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    I was indeed lucky that I had a company phone back at the guest house so was able to call banks in the UK and wait on the phone for 20+ minutes. Was also lucky they didn't have my actual sim card in the phone where all my OTP's go as that would have been even worse. Getting a phone blacklisted...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    Low chance at the beach parking lot, which makes me think it happened at Eden on the bay in the afternoon and then they would have had to follow me to guest house in a car and wait outside till I went back to the beach in the evening. Which seems quite intense when they wouldn't have known I had...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    To be honest I did get a bit worried about blackmail as they have every photo that's been taken on my phone for the last 10 years or more. Fraud is pretty big at the moment in SA. I constantly hear about people getting defrauded by scammers in some way or another. Usually it's older less...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    So here's the thing. I was only down in Cape Town for 2 nights, staying at a guest house by myself. Went out once or twice to restaurants or Eden on the bay but that was it. Hardly any chance for someone to be able to be close enough to spy my password. The guest house did have wifi but not sure...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    I do believe they had the passcode to get in, no ways they could have got in and changed my appleid password without it, unless they were literally the FBI or Apple themselves, and even then not sure it's possible. I was curious at first if I knew the person and had had any contact with them...
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    Obtaining account details of a hacker from South African exchange - Luno

    More regular means? The only way into an iPhone is via the passcode or faceID, or actually hacking it which is apparently impossible according to Apple, and not possible in the 30 minutes or so from when it was stolen. Wasn't able to lock it down as they changed my appleid account password...
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