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Millions of iCloud Accounts Could Be Wiped if Apple Refuses Ransom

April 6, 2017

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No less than $75,000 in cryptocurrency (Bitcoin or Ether), or $100,000 in iTunes gift cards — this is the exorbitant ransom that cybercriminals have demanded from Apple. The group, calling themselves the Turkish Crime Family, claims to have stolen access to 300 million iCloud accounts, and have threatened to wipe them on April 7 (tomorrow) if the corporation doesn’t pay up.

The cybercriminals sent a series of screen shots to Motherboard that apparently show the exchange of emails between the hacker group and Apple’s security team. They also provided access to one of the email accounts that they allegedly used to communicate with the company and lay down their conditions for the deal.

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