[sh1mmer]

If the phone was locked, passcoded, remote erased and sim-locked how did they know her number? I’m not doubting the story I’m just curious how they figured that out.

[remram]

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe it was on the lock screen? Seems unlikely that they managed to remember its association with the phone throughout, though.

edit: we have the answer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579230

[raziel31]

> As you can see, most of the phones she tried didn’t have passcodes but were still linked to iCloud accounts

I guess she didn't have passcode on.