His iphone ipad and macbook were completely wiped.
Rise of hackers mat honan twitter.
The ultimate prize was his twitter account mat.
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.
Apparently it all started when the hackers compromised the icloud account of mat honan a former gizmodo employee.
According to honan that allowed them to take over his google and twitter accounts.
By taking advantage of alarmingly relaxed security policies at apple and amazon hackers were able to breach honan s twitter google and icloud accounts.
My computer my iphone and.
Hackers gathered data from various sources to wreak online havoc.
They cleaned out his entire google account and gmail inbox.
And to keep this prize with just a few clicks they destroyed his digital life.
Two million german vodaphone customers credit card numbers from home depot and the apple icloud hack.
For the hackers a trophy.