I did not ever put in my email password to this iPad. People in one department were using it to send me emails with photos for me to store on a remote server. For a couple weeks I was receiving the emails as expected, from other employee’s emails. Then I started getting them to me from me. It was weird and I changed my password.
The department who set it up insist that my manager and I set up that iPad with my email. Neither he nor I have any recollection of that at all. I’ve never touched the iPad except to put it, in a box, into the drawer where it’s kept.
How concerned should I be? There’s no one here who could do any kind of hacking or whatever, most barely understand the difference between cloud storage and server storage, much less how to spoof email.
Was the tablet prepared to a corporate ‘image?’ It may be that was a default set of options specified in a standard build by your company.
Unfortunately, Apple products and I parted ways long ago, and I’m not current on their state of play - so that’s pretty much the thought I have on the subject.
Was it provided by the company? If so, it may have the corporate image (i.e., it was configured in a specified way, and once synched, it took care of this pesky detail for you).
Separate from the corporate image question, did you have to do anything with security settings in order to use the iPad within the company network? Sometimes setting that up includes a profile or downloading software from the company. Once that is on the iPad, again, it will finish setting up your email synch for you.
ETA: No, I don’t think you need to be concerned. Do you have a passcode set up to log in to the device when you turn it on? That is a good idea if you haven’t done it, just as a best practice.
One of the reason having mad taste with Apple and Google now days is they keep dumping down computer users with their cloud and synch stuff among other things.
If you have Mac computer and iPad with same e-mail or same Apple ID it really well could be synch.
Apple and Google thinks computer users are dumb so the software tries to do most of the set up. It not like in old day where you have to tell the computer every thing.
This could be major problem for people that don’t want synch.
With Apple and Google you can synch your bookmarks and history on all your dvices.
If you have mix of computer environment like Mac computers, windows, android, chrome and different e-mail like hotmail and yahoo the less likelihood it is synch. With out going through work trying to synch it.
Cross platforms can be synch but is easier with same computer environment all Mac computers or all android using same ID and e-mail.
I miss the good old days when you had to tell the OS every thing.
If your Mac computer and iPad have the same e-mail address and same Apple ID your wife may pick up your iPad and see every thing you do on your Mac computer. It is even worse with google chrome.
Not to say google knows every thing you do on the computer and every web site your go to.
“Other members of the governor’s family became aware of the affair, according to the report, after perusing a state-issued iPad that Bentley had given to his wife. The 74-year-old governor was apparently ignorant of the fact that the tablet was logged into the same iCloud messaging account that he used to text sweet nothings to Mason.”
