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Apple says nothing as Apple ID accounts mysteriously locked down

November 15, 2018

Has someone been trying to hack into a large number of Apple ID accounts?

That’s one of the theories circulating after a significant number of iPhone owners woke up on Tuesday to discover that their handsets were displaying a message saying that their Apple ID had been locked.

All the indications are that Apple locked the accounts of an unknown number of customers, kicking them out of iCloud, iMessage, Apple Music, Apple TV and other services and – in some cases – demanding that they verify their identity to regain access.

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