Through the system iCloud Apple offers iDevice owners the opportunity to save a large amount of data on the company's servers and have that data available on multiple iDevices/Macs when restoring the operating system. Saving this data in a single account is of course very dangerous, too the problems encountered by a Gizmodo editor should make us all be more careful about how we use our iCloud account. The whole story is based on the fact that the user saves his passwords to social network accounts and not only directly in iCloud.
The editor of Gizmodo had saved in iCloud the password of his Twitter account which was linked to that of Gizmodo, plus the passwords of other social networks/email accounts, but the worst part is that he had activated the Find My iPhone service. After the hackers changed the passwords of the email accounts, the accounts on the social networks and had a little fun on the official Gizmodo account on Twitter, they moved on to the real attack. Through Find My iPhone and Find My Mac, they deleted all the data from the editor's iDevices, but also the entire SSD installed in his Mac, leaving him practically without a lot of information that he needed.
The editor had an old and apparently not very strong password, and the hackers managed to crack it or take it through a keylogger or other system, and the final result was disastrous. This problem can occur for anyone and unfortunately services like Find My iPhone can prove to be lifesavers or destroyers.
