Original Article on The New York Times

8:14 p.m. Aug 6 | Updated Adding reference to the Wired article describing the incident in full detail.8:07 p.m. Aug. 6 | Updated Adding comment from Apple. The break-in of a journalist's Apple iCloud account serves as a cautionary tale about how vulnerable people can be to malicious hackers, no matter how digitally sophisticated they are. Mat Honan, a seasoned technology writer, was spectacularly hacked over the weekend.On Friday evening, the password for Mr. Honan's iCloud account was reset. Later the bad guys broke into his Gmail account, and eventually they erased the data on his iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air using Apple's remote-wipe feature - a self-destruct mechanism of sorts designed for use when a device has entered the wrong hands....(read more)