An Apple fan who has spent “nearly 30 years as a loyal customer” says they’ve been “permanently” locked out of their Apple Account due to what might be the overzealous actions of Apple’s automated anti-fraud system. It’s left them locked out of “20 years of digital life,” and it all started with the seemingly straightforward purchase of an Apple gift card.
Stupid people do stupid things. Like putting all apples in one basket.
Sometimes the lesson that needs to be learned in order to appreciate backups is hard…
They have backups, that’s not the point. https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
It’s not a backup if they don’t have at least one rotation in physical possession.