One of the commenters on the reddit post suggests that the financial information – credit cards, I assume – were stolen and used for purchases on another Apple account.
This is really scary as my credit cards #s were already stole a few times and it was never an issue larger than 15 minutes on phone with my bank rep. However, if this could lead to me losing my iCloud account (or Google, Amazon, etc.), this is a much bigger deal.
NT and OS X use hybrid kernels (as well as Plan9). Linus believe that hybrid is another term for monolithic, but rest of the world does not.
AFAIR micro- ones are used by QNX and Minix. Monolithic kernels are used by Linux, *BSD (with an exception for Dragonfly, which uses hybrid kernel), Solaris, AIX(?) and more SysV descendants.
Pretty stupid stab, to be honest. Every major desktop/workstation operating system uses microkernel or hybrid architecture (even NT, yeah, that's true; I know that Linux thinks hybrid is another word for macro-). And it is like this for some purpose.
To my best knowledge being macrokernel makes Linux "huge and bloated" like someone has once said.