Overnight,
many
people
reported
on
social
media
that
they
were
inexplicably
logged
out
of
their
Apple
IDs
and
then
required
to
reset
their
passwords
when
they
tried
to
sign
in
again,
and
nobody
seems
to
know
why.
Some
reported
needing
to
enter
their
iPhone
passcode
to
connect
to
iCloud
again,
while
others
with
Stolen
Device
Protection
enabled
said
they
had
to
wait
an
hour
before
being
able
to
log
in.
Apple’s
System
Status
webpage
shows
no
current
issues
with
any
of
its
services,
so
it’s
not
clear
if
this
was
a
widespread
issue.
That
said,
9to5Mac
reports
that
even
a
few
of
its
staff
members
were
also
affected
by
the
issue.
At
least
one
Forbes
contributor
apparently
experienced
the
issue
as
well.
The
outlet
saw
no
indication
that
this
was
related
to
the
password
reset
attacks
that
several
publications,
including
Forbes,
covered
in
March.
One
Mastodon
user
said
they
were
told
by
an
Apple
support
team
member
that
“sometimes
random
security
improvements
are
added
to
your
account,”
while
on
Reddit,
a
person
posted
today
in
a
thread
about
the
issue
that
Apple
support
told
them
their
password
“was
changed
around
midnight.”
Some
people
said
they
also
had
to
reset
their
app-specific
passwords
for
third-party
apps
that
access
their
Apple
ID
(email
clients,
for
example).
Not
everyone
was
forced
to
change
their
passwords,
however,
as
the
person
posting
in
the
above
Threads
post
said
a
password
reset
was
only
“suggested,”
not
required.
Mac
developer
Michael
Tsai
wrote
up
a
blog
post
about
dealing
with
the
issue.
In
“another
instance
of
my
Apple
ID
mysteriously
being
locked,”
he
said
he
had
to
wait
an
hour
to
reset
because
of
Stolen
Device
Protection,
Apple’s
new
security
feature
to
keep
iPhone
owners’
iCloud
accounts
protected
in
the
event
their
phones
are
stolen.
Evidently,
the
feature
only
listed
a
grocery
store
Tsai
visits
every
couple
of
weeks
as
one
of
the
non-configurable
locations
where
the
one-hour
delay
for
password
resets
wouldn’t
be
enforced.
Apple
did
not
respond
immediately
to
The
Verge’s
request
for
comment.
In
the
meantime,
as
frustrating
as
the
issue
sounds,
at
least
not
everyone
had
to
deal
with
it
in
hard
mode:
Original author: Wes Davis
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