I got hacked mid-air while writing an Apple-FBI story

Steven Petrow, writing for USA Today:

“How did you know I was a reporter?” I asked while we started walking.

“Are you interested in the Apple/FBI story?” he responded, ignoring my question.

“Kind of. Why are you asking me that?” I thought he was some kind of creepy mind reader.

Then he dropped the bombshell.

“I hacked your email on the plane and read everything you sent and received. I did it to most people on the flight.” He had verbatim detail of a long email that he repeated back to me essentially word for word.

Pretty incredible story.

UPDATE: Via Daring Fireball, read this post from Errata security for some debunking on the above.