Widespread Reports of Apple ID Accounts Being Inexplicably Locked

Reset my account a couple of weeks back and all working ok. Until I tried logging on to the Apple Music 100 Best Albums list they just published. When I try logging in with my me.com account it said I needed a password reset. However I was not about to go through all that again since as others have pointed out you lose all your App Specific Passwords - a pain to set all those up again. Just by chance tried logging in with my mac.com email and it all worked? So they are not recognizing the fact that I have been using the two account names interchangeably for years without difficulty until now!! Bring back eWorld?