Hacked Apple Accounts

Hi. Sorry but I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum or not but have some questions regarding hacked accounts.
I was wondering what is the likelihood that your Apple ID can be used for hacking activities and what's the worse that can happen if your account gets hacked into?
I've read how hackers can run up hundreds in bills using itunes under your apple accounts.
I have two apple ID accounts and would like to delete them but I don't think Apple will let me. What's the best way to make sure that my account never gets hacked into? I've already changed my info in one of my apple accounts so that none of it can be traced to any of my real personal information (entering gibberish and a fake email address). I also am not registered with Itunes. Can people still use my apple ID for fraudulent activities (such as purchasing apple products or something)? I don't have any credit card info in these accounts by the way. Just my full name, address, phone, etc.
If someone could explain/clarify these issues to me, that'd be great.
Thanks.

helloihaveaquestion wrote:
Can people still use my apple ID for fraudulent activities (such as purchasing apple products or >something)? I don't have any credit card info in these accounts by the way. Just my full name, >address, phone, etc.
I don't really see how they could do much of anything. I suppose they could pretend to be you and post here on the forums.
Best of luck.

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In the past couple weeks, on at least 3 occassions, I have received similar messages from apple, probably 3 each occassion.
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The second time I got these messages last weekend, I added 2-step authentication to my Apple account.
Last night, after getting more regarding my challenge questions, I got concerned, so I changed my strong password to another, in case they had acquired my password when Apple's Developer servers got hacked in the recent past.
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But do you know what a pain in the rear end this is, to change a single appleid password? Each of my devices - 2 macs, iPad, iPhone - I have to change the iCloud login under settings. I have to change the logins in third party apps - my email program for example. This is a freaking nightmare.
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It is very likely that someone is convinced your Apple ID is really theirs, and they're repeatedly attempting to reset their password. They click on the link to send an email to have it reset. You get the email with the link to reset it. If you did not request your password to be reset, the obvious thing to do is to ignore it.
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