It Seems Someone has signed into facetime using my email address
A very strange string of events happened this morning involving FaceTime and iMessage.
Before I go through explaining what happened today I will list my devices so it's easy to see why I had concern.
iMac - Named Will's iMac (obtained in september of '11. set up Facetime with my gmail account. messages app set up in beta when it was available. still on Lion)
Macbook Pro - Named Will's Macbook Pro (obtained in september '11 originally set up facetime and messages with gmail, upgraded to Mountain Lion so gmail and phone number are tied to both accounts)
iPad 3 - Named Will's iPad (obtained on release day ios6 set up with phone number and gmail)
iPhone 5 - Named Will's iPhone (obtained release day ios6 set up with phone number and gmail)
I woke up to my alarm this morning on my iPhone, shut it off and an alert popped up saying the following: Email Added to "iMac" "iMac" is now using xxxx@gmail.com for FaceTime. I thought well that is strange because 1) it should say Will's iMac since that is the name of the computer, and 2) FaceTime has been set up on my iMac for a year.
I got up and went out to my Macbook Pro and woke it from sleep to see an alert with the iMessage icon and the message Email Added to "iMac" "iMac" is now using xxxx@gmail.com for FaceTime.
Go downstairs to my iMac and wake it from sleep to find an alert from iMessage that I must enter my Apple ID. So I did and it accepted it without error.
I verified that my iMac's name is indeed Will's iMac.
I went back upstairs to my Macbook and decided to try and facetime myself in case someone else was using my email address on another machine, I thought maybe it would ring on their computer and they would answer. As soon as I did it; it hung up and asked me to log into my Apple ID. Which I did and it sat there spinning forever and finally logged in an asked me to set up what accounts I want associated with FaceTime like it was the first time I ever set it up. So I set my Number and my Email address to use facetime and it logged in.
I got an alert on my iPhone that says Phone Number Added to "Will's Macbook Pro" "Will's Macbook Pro" is now using +1 (XXX) XXX-XXXX for FaceTime.
I got the same message on my iPad along with the first message about "iMac" using my email address. However if you notice when I messed with my Macbook it actually used the name of the computer which is Will's Macbook Pro not just Macbook Pro.
I checked my iPhone's Settings and it showed that a couple of email addresses where associated with iMessage and FaceTime that I didn't care to have associated with either of them so I disabled all email addresses and then turned one back on. I got an alert on my iPad, and Macbook that stated
Email Added to "Will's iPhone" "Will's iPhone" is now using xxxx@gmail.com for FaceTime.
Again it used the device name that I expected it to.
So from all of this it looks like to me that someone used my gmail address to sign into FaceTime on another computer that is not mine.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Should I be concerned? Would there be any way to find out what devices my email address is linked to?
I thought about calling Apple but not sure anything would get done, or they would give up any info. However I am highly concerened, because of the story a month or so ago about the reporter who was hacked into and all of his devices wiped. There really is no cause for me to be elaborately hacked into since I am a "normal joe", but it's not impossible that it could happen either. I am definitely not the paranoid type when it comes to the internet, but these series of events got me thinking that something not normal happened.
I have since changed my Apple ID password and I have finally turned on 2-Step verification for Gmail after all of this happened.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1), 27" Quad-Core i7 256GB SSD 8GB RAM
