As a tip: use your AppleID to generate a secondary email that you use for your day to day email, while keeping the login email secret. The problem stems from nefarious groups getting a hold of email addresses and running distributed dictionary attacks. Apple’s response is to prevent all logins (including valid ones) from accounts that are under attack. Unlocking the account involves calling Apple, they’re not going t…
i also did this: created an email address that i use exclusively on apple. it actually wasn’t hard at all. zero issues since. > The problem stems from nefarious groups getting a hold of email addresses and running distributed dictionary attacks. years back my email was leaked by a website that i never visited. apparently someone signed up using my email address and the website never verified the email. in the meantim…
For example I give custom email addresses to every service I sign up for, then I can see who they on-sold that information to, or if the email address turns up in database hack.
The only thing to be mindful about with this approach is to choose a service that gives you a fair bit of control over how to manage that incoming email. Such as being able to bounce or block specific email addresses including the use of wildcards, because I notice some hacking groups will try permutations based on the original email address.