com.apple.account.idms.hearbeat-token

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com.apple.account.idms.hearbeat-token

Hey y'all,

This has been buggin' me ever since i first caught a glimpse of it couple o' months ago....

Decided to serve it up and see what u guys thought about it cuz it just popped up as soon as i singed into the appstore.

There's this odd entry within my icloud's keychain repo its name is:

com.apple.account.idms.heartbeat-token

says its something related to the accountsd, (which i presume is short for accounts daemon.)

Pleassseeee, do not bother in answering if u're gonna say something along the lines of :

"its got something to do with health kit - and your heartbeat analysis" - ***no, it aint got nothing to do with that.

My suspicions lie around the possibility of an ssl infection or a some sort of comms-spy/malware.

Anyone got an explanation ?

Like a clear cut : this is it type thing explanation....

Much obliged,

macOS Sierra (10.12.3), MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch 2015)

Posted on Feb 13, 2017 2:02 AM

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Answer 1

Doppler818 Author

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Feb 14, 2017 4:02 AM in response to cavemees

Yeah, thinnkk thats kinda of what i said back at the initial post, wasn'it? I went thru the same process cuz i do fiddle arround my system and i like tokeep a record of : stuff i broke VS

Stuff that broke / or in this case: current state revolves around "LACKING NECESSARY INTEL, for further discovery.... which i believe, shouldda been provided by apple, no?

Anywhosle.....

Anyone currently present whom might have familiarity with keychain sockets cli commands ??

Gonna give them a go.... see what comes out the other end if i ever get to it - currently sunk within 10 dif projects and have already re-installed macos twice within these past couple days - wont blame no else though... i do indeed like to tinker around whichever OS im running; though i must confess that ever since 10.12.2 when macos became a nagging necessity or necessarily-native (cough ... mandatory... cough)

The kernel does not seem to like to play .... or maybe im just not as familiar with the new swf background(even though it does seem quite straightforward)

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cavemees

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Feb 14, 2017 4:03 AM in response to Doppler818

FWIW... I have it in my keychain as well. I assume it's related to iCloud and/or Apple ID security.

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Answer 3

cavemees

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Feb 14, 2017 4:03 AM in response to cavemees

I can confirm it's related to Apple ID. Just did a test, System Preferences > iCloud. Clicked Account Details, confirmed with my password and the 'Date Modified' in Keychain changed immediately.

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