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Apple gives a guy's Apple ID to a stranger ... because he asked

By Paul McNamara on Tue, 07/08/08 - 10:11am.

Marko Karppinen writes: "I tried to log in to Apple Developer Connection this morning to find out that my password had been changed and the email associated with my account was now a yahoo.com address that wasn't mine. Luckily, my 'security question' was still the same, so I was able to reset the password and email address back."

Security question? That would seem to indicate there was a security system involved here, but clearly that's not the case.

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