My iCloud ID seems cracked: iCloud Keychain verification codes were sent from unknown senders

This morning, I received four SMS (text) messages from different phone numbers to my iPhone (iPhone 4s, iOS7.2.1).
All the SMS messages say
'Your iCloud Keychain verification number is xxxxxx' (6 digiit number)
All the phone numbers, which sent the message to me, seem mobile phone numbers in Malaysia:
+60 14 7380 651
+60 17 846 7052
+60 10 890 1756
+60 14 7380 650
and I did not know any of the senders (phone numbers).
(Also what I have found is the first and fourth numbers are different only by one.)
I think I have not touched Keychain feature of iCloud recently.
I doubted that my password for Apple ID was cracked.
Thus, I have changed my password for Apple ID (and iCloud).
I also have an ipad2 tablet (iOS7.2.1).
Are there anything else should I do?

Okay, for all of you following this or experiencing the problem - here's the trick - give up on iCloud entirely - disconnect everything from it and whatever iCloud thinks it has on you will disappear - keep in mind that this will not blow-out or delete any keychain entries on your local machines - those are sacrosanct and will remain - each machine is/was/remains an island without iCloud - but it's likely (in my case) and maybe in many of yours that iCloud thinks it has important stuff in it - but it just might be wrong.
In my case, I disconnected my iPad, iPhone, MBA and iMac and followed the process to blow out the entire online keychain and any documents out in the cloud - I didn't have much of anything and I lost no files either.
Once all that was done, I started iCloud on my iPhone 6+ without issue, and then proceeded to add the MacBook Air, desktop and so forth - and it's great now.

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