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by balabaster 3977 days ago
Be that as it may, security breaches occur in complex and presumed safe systems every day - look at how a social engineer used data found from one system (Amazon) to exploit another (Apple) to get further information and cause users havoc last year. Both systems were presumed to have safeguards that kept intruders out. When humans are part of the security equation, in my experience, all bets are off.

In this case, it may (or may not) be a hysterical over-reach, only time will really tell.