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Someone trying to break into my apple account

I keep getting emails from apple notifying me that someone has been trying to reset my password, if they try too many times, my account gets locked, and I have to go through the process to unlock it before I can use it again. I don’t know if this is a prank or someone trying to steal my information, or someone genuinely believe my account belonged to him/her. So my question is, how do I make it stop, this is very annoying and is preventing me from using apple products effectively.


one thing I can think of is to convert one of my secret iCloud email aliases to the main account for logging in, so whoever is doing this won’t know my account name. But apparently that cannot be done on my own. Any suggestions?

Posted on Nov 8, 2018 8:26 PM

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You can also add 2 Factor Authentication to your account for more security. If the attempts continue, you might want to consider a name change.


Apple ID Name Change



What to do after you change your Apple ID or password - Apple Support I suggest doing this before you change your Apple ID or password.

Posted on Nov 8, 2018 8:57 PM

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Nov 8, 2018 8:57 PM in response to ray864

You can also add 2 Factor Authentication to your account for more security. If the attempts continue, you might want to consider a name change.


Apple ID Name Change



What to do after you change your Apple ID or password - Apple Support I suggest doing this before you change your Apple ID or password.

Nov 8, 2018 9:04 PM in response to Eric Root

Thank you. But changing Apple ID does not really work for me as the choices I have when I attempt to do that is basically the same username followed by @me.com and @icloud.com, and even I change from me to iCloud, the both can still be used to log into my account and thus can still be used to request password reset.

Someone trying to break into my apple account

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