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Your PC looks to have been the attack vector given all those password requests.
Sign out of your PC and anything else. Using your phone, sign into iCloud and change your password. Remove all you’d devices, expect your phone.
Don’t sign in anywhere else. Wait and monitor your account.
If that works, then start running a scan on your PC. Because it’s likely you have malware on it. Your iPhone (unless you jailbroke it) is secure.
It unlikely the hacker infiltrated iCloud or is doing anything other than copying the password you keep re entering on your PC.
That's not a bad idea. I'll give that a shot, if only to rule out the desktop. My working theory is that theres a bug in the windows icloud program, and this could help isolate the source. Maybe after a bit, if no issues arrise with your test condition, I will sign in via a desktop browser and see if the emails re-appear, indicating that it may be my computer in general, as opposed to just the icloud program. We'll see.
Thanks
It’s unlikely there’s a bug that would hit logins. That seems super super rare that someone found a massive exploit into the system as a whole as is just fucking with your account lol. And doesn’t explain how anyone managed to get in or keeps trying or how they bypass 2FA; there’s lots of questions left unanswered. There’s just way too many hurdles being jumped to call it a “bug” imo. An infected PC seems much more likely.
I wouldn’t log in using your PC till you can for sure deem it free of malware.