Someone is using my icloud photo stream.

i noticed odd pictures showing up in my photo stream. i even changed the password of my iCloud account, yet new pictures from their device is being loaded onto my photo stream. is there a way to remotely disconnect them without find my iphone? or should i just delete my icloud account and start from scratch (but i really don't want to lose my apps that i have previously purchased)

We also had the same exact thing happen to us as well. How can we contact apple to report this bug? It just started happening Friday Sep 13!!! We turned off photo stream which deleted all the other persons picture. Then we turned it back on but just started receiving their photos again.
We do not use any kind of photo apps on the iPad. Also these photos show up on all 3 of our devices that are tied to the same icloud user name. So it's not just one device it's all 3 that are getting someone else's photos. And we don't know the person either so they wouldn't have our iCloud email address either.
Very odd!!!

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