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Hackers are taking advantage of iPhone recovery keys to lock people out of their Apple accounts.

The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen have followed up their report about the power of the passcode with one about recovery keys. I’d recommend reading the report and watching the video: if someone changes your recovery key, you might be permanently shut out of your account. Hopefully Apple addresses this with iOS 17, which should be announced in just a few weeks.

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