On Tuesday, Apple ordered its telephone support staff to immediately cease AppleID password changes requests. The likely temporary change in procedure comes following the Wired reporter Mat Honan's identity hack over the weekend, resulting in completely deleted MacBook, iPad, iPhone, and GMail accounts as a result of an attacker tricking an AppleCare rep into resetting Honan's iCloud password, which started a chain of password reset procedures to access the next system, culminating in the reporter's Twitter accounts.
