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Apple locked a 30-year customer out of everything over a gift card

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 17, 2025
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Paris Buttfield-Addison bought a $500 Apple gift card from a major retailer to pay for iCloud storage. The code failed. The store agreed to reissue it. Apparently, the card number had been compromised. Then Apple locked his entire account.

Buttfield-Addison isn’t some random customer. He’s an Apple developer who took over O’Reilly’s “L…

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