User level: Level 1 (13 points)How do I regain management of my account if I have
Stolen credentials thru use of pineapple wi fi
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Original Title: Stolen Credentials
Posted on Oct 13, 2026 10:57 PM
User level: Level 10 (169,253 points)Oct 14, 2026 5:16 AM in response to Win2much
Win2much wrote:
How do I regain management of my account if I have
Stolen credentials thru use of pineapple wi fi
If this follows a common pattern of late, this involved a re-used password, or a phished password, and no two-factor authentication. Not a Pineapple.
The security questions will now be in some other language, too.
If so… That’s not your account anymore.
Your sole remaining option to try to wrest back control — this might work — is adding a low-limit virtual payment card. Then using that payment card to try to use Account Recovery.
That’s described here: iPhone, iPad or Apple Account Security Co… - Apple Community
The takeover of an Apple Account with a re-used (compromised, phished) password and no two-factor authentication is trivial.
Wi-Fi Pineapple isn’t all that useful for this takeover either, as the Apple network connections are encrypted. You’d have to have clicked past various warnings, and either without two-factor authentication enabled or getting that phished too.
User level: Level 1 (13 points)Oct 21, 2026 3:47 PM in response to MrHoffman
Two factor has never been turned off and long ago iPad was in hacker’s hands and I didn’t know at the time my iPad had been interfaced. I later found out that all devices had also been hacked. I plan to get a iPhone 17 or 18 and activate it cellular and use youbi keys. Turns out he’s one of the United Health hackers and part of a loose group
User level: Level 1 (13 points)Oct 21, 2026 3:52 PM in response to Win2much
How would I recover any of the other Apple IDs he put himself in the Apple Developer program and with medical identity theft they sell the drs info and you overseas and I work with Att General on this and federal reps and I can prove it so that account gone but I will bring this to Apple so he will have to get in programs on his own so others do not see money leave bc they get a lot to sell you but I sure do see money leave illegally so I do not know much but I know what’s legal and illegal
User level: Level 10 (169,253 points)Oct 21, 2026 4:58 PM in response to Win2much
Win2much wrote:
Two factor has never been turned off and long ago iPad was in hacker’s hands and I didn’t know at the time my iPad had been interfaced. I later found out that all devices had also been hacked. I plan to get a iPhone 17 or 18 and activate it cellular and use youbi keys. Turns out he’s one of the United Health hackers and part of a loose group
… How would I recover any of the other Apple IDs he put himself in the Apple Developer program and with medical identity theft they sell the drs info and you overseas and I work with Att General on this and federal reps and I can prove it so that account gone but I will bring this to Apple so he will have to get in programs on his own so others do not see money leave bc they get a lot to sell you but I sure do see money leave illegally so I do not know much but I know what’s legal and illegal
None of which will get solved here, if at all.
Not without direct forensic access, and the sorts of sensitive questions inappropriate for discussion around here, or in most any forum.
That assuming this attribution of this compromise is even correct.
Replacement with a feature phone is another viable option, given the reported difficulties with device and account management and account security.
User level: Level 1 (13 points)Oct 27, 2026 1:02 AM in response to MrHoffman
Yes and activate it without wi fi as I am no match for illegal activity. Plus I will add youbi keys two of them and wait for the proper authorities to deal with it! Hoping it works I only wonder if I do it in a underground garage do I need electricity and this is the right place for all matters Apple we are here for good not bad reasons and together we defeat the negative
User level: Level 10 (169,253 points)Oct 27, 2026 6:54 AM in response to Win2much
Win2much wrote:
Yes and activate it without wi fi as I am no match for illegal activity. Plus I will add youbi keys two of them and wait for the proper authorities to deal with it! Hoping it works I only wonder if I do it in a underground garage do I need electricity and this is the right place for all matters Apple we are here for good not bad reasons and together we defeat the negative
Get rid of the iPhone and the other gear, and stop trying to use gear you are reporting as being persistently exploited.
User level: Level 10 (105,996 points)Oct 21, 2026 4:22 PM in response to Win2much
Refer to your other posts here on that matter:
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256375845