Apple is no stranger to cyber crime. Remember when cyber crooks exposed nude celebrity pictures back in 2014? But this one developing case could be even worse. Because it literally holds accounts hostage. Apple held hostage: Hackers threaten iCloud accounts.
The hacker group name is Turkish Crime Family. They demand $750,000. Also, they say they have hundreds of millions of email accounts. Furthermore, they’re demanding this money by April 7. But if they don’t get it, they’ll wipe out emails and iClouds. However, they’ll take $100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards. One hacker says he wants Apple customers to know what’s going on.
Furthermore, they sent email accounts to their website, Motherboard. The Turkish Crime Family put up a You Tube video. The video showed them browsing through iClouds. We don’t know how many email accounts they have. But Apple held hostage is real. The low number is 200 million accounts. The high number is 600 million accounts. But I don’t care how many Apple email accounts they have. One email account is one account too many. But one security expert said he doesn’t know if the threat is real. He doesn’t even know if The Turkish Crime Family is real or fake. This is a bad move on this expert’s talk.
Anybody in computer repair, anybody in IT support, and anybody in cyber security will tell you the same thing. You take every threat seriously! Especially a threat of this magnitude. There’s a lot we don’t know. We don’t know if these hackers really are from Turkey. It they are, are they working for their president Tayyip Erdogan? Remember, the people who hacked Yahoo were Russian agents! So it is possible. And what do the hackers mean, “They want their money?” What makes them think they’re entitled? And what is Apple doing about this threat? I hope they’re not waiting until something bad happens. This is a serious threat, and what is Apple doing about it?