Some Users Locked Out of Their Apple IDs, Forced to Reset Passwords

[now i see it]

Whose looking forward to driving an Apple iCar?

 

[justperry]

I worked in a Fortune 500 company many years ago the used a password cracker on everyone's account. If the cracker could guess/find the password then you had to change it. Maybe Apple is doing the same thing.

There's one here with this issue and his password is 25 random digits/characters, there's no way you can crack that in a million years.
Actually, the next user has an even longer password, so no, *"can't" be cracked.
*= Maybe in 100 billion years.

Of course, I use a 47 character password that is a lyric to a song followed by several special characters so if anyone happens to crack this, then hats off to them and they deserve it.

 

[thisisnotmyname]

This happened to me yesterday. Had to reset my password.

My partner had the same thing (not positive it was the same city but also from China) on Sunday. Rejected the login attempt but wasn't required to reset password (did so out of caution anyway).

 

[RudySnow]

This happened to me as well. I am running iOS 12.1.1 beta 2. I logged out of my Apple ID and logged back in, but now my Apple Music playlists are gone and I must restore my iPad from a backup from before the password issue, according to Apple, to get the playlists and Apple matched music back. Irritating!

 

[imac98]

Same here 1st on MacBook asking to reset pw for Messages, then on iPhone and Apple TV.

 

[B4U]

Yup, I am one of the “small amount of users”.
Apple better give us an explanation quickly.

 

[anshuvorty]

This happened to me too. Apple also asked to verify my credit card number because the phone number wasn’t good enough? It was weird. I have 2 factor set up so I doubt someone tried to hack my account. Really weird.

 

[mi7chy]

Better safe than having your privade nude pictures leaked all over the internet again.

 

[d.steve]

One of the first things I read this morning was about some of Google's traffic being routed through China because of a bad BGP change. A few minutes later, my daughter happens to grab her iPad and says her iCloud account was locked.

My first thought is that Apple detected unusual traffic patterns that triggered the reset.

My second thought was that if this were the case, you'd see some VPN users get their IDs reset. A quick search led to results suggesting that this does happen.

 

[Nunyabinez]

Better safe than having your privade nude pictures leaked all over the internet again.

True that. Especially since I just paid $1000 in Bit Coins so that the video of me watching XVideos.com wouldn't be sent to my contacts.

Just kidding of course.

 

[I7guy]

Better safe than having your privade nude pictures leaked all over the internet again.

You mean the one user, whose account was phished/guessed this happened to the first time?

 

[iapplelove]

3 iCloud accounts in my house and none had a forced reset. All with 2FA
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One of the first things I read this morning was about some of Google's traffic being routed through China because of a bad BGP change. A few minutes later, my daughter happens to grab her iPad and says her iCloud account was locked.

My first thought is that Apple detected unusual traffic patterns that triggered the reset.

My second thought was that if this were the case, you'd see some VPN users get their IDs reset. A quick search led to results suggesting that this does happen.

I posted a link in an earlier post of that article.

 

[boswald]

I’m about to blow up. This happens to me every week and of course apple is no help. I figure someone is pranking me, true hacking attempt or apple has me on a suspicious user list or something. I’m am sick of giving them 10 bucks a month for storage and this bs happening to me every month. Of course because I have an iCloud email address I can’t change my username.

Every time I change my password I have to type it in 8 apple devices and then go through setting up app specific password on 2 apps on three of the devices. As I said getting old.

Wow, that sounds awful. Sorry this happens to you.

 

[drsox]

My wife had this happen to her this morning. My account was spared.

Yep, me too.

 

[Michael73]

Apple sure knows how to make me feel *special*. #WhyMe #HadToReset #NotFeelinTheLove

 

[pweicks]

My sister had to take her phone to the Apple store to get it checked out. It won’t receive iMessages. The Apple store told her that her account was malfunctioning and to wait 24 hours to see if it fixed itself, but there are no signs of her being locked out of her account or notifications telling her to reset her password. Anybody been having the same issues?

 

[SOLLERBOY]

In had the same at half past midnight last night. Now my iPhone won't sync properly with iCloud. I have 2fa and never received a prompt that someone was trying to log in beforehand....

 

[omihek]

And I just reset my password about 2 weeks ago. Had to do it again this morning.

I’m running out of creative ways to spell my favorite color.

And what color would that be?

Asking for a hacker friend.

 

[Jimmy Bubbles]

Happened to me & my mom early this morning; around 6 a.m. CST.

 

[frifra]

Did not read all the comments, but in case if anybody is wondering. Seems to be a worldwide issue. I am from Germany and the same thing happened to me today which I found odd. But now I know

 

[Jimmy Bubbles]

That’s my best guess. I’m actually glad I set up two factor authentication. Apple probably reset everyone else’s for protection.

Interesting guess, however, I've had 2FA setup since they rolled it out.

 

[accarlson]

It happened to me last friday!

 

[Jimmy Bubbles]

I suppose the Chinese gov't figured out my password...

 

[davidmckay]

Happened to me twice in last week. Bit annoying that you can’t use the same password used inthe last -2 months...

 

[biggie5252]

Interestingly I got an email this morning telling me I was locked out and needed to reset my password. It was obvious phishing. Coincidental?