Trying to restore from iCloud...Have I been hacked?

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DavidB1988 Author

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Trying to restore from iCloud...Have I been hacked?

So I got my new phone today, iPhone 5s.
I set it up and logged in with my apple ID but it asked me to log in again with 4 different email account which I have never used or heard of. I couldn't change the ID so I just pressed 'Skip this step' but I said I can't restore unless I log in with those accounts?

They ended in: @aol.com @yeah.net @hotmail.com and @hotmail.de.
My ID ends in @hotmail.co.uk.
Who's account are these?

iPhone 5s

Posted on Oct 3, 2014 7:53 AM

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fromsouth

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Oct 3, 2014 10:39 AM in response to DavidB1988

No you have not been hacked but you have rather just admitted to music pirating/exchange. When itunes store sells music, movies or apps the apple id of purchaser(those emails that you see) is embedded in software of those things and icloud backup server reads those tags and knows that those things do not belong to you. It asks for password in order to put it back to your phone and will not download until you provide it during restore from backup.

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