A group of hackers known as the ‘Turkish Crime Family’ are attempting to run an extortion scheme against Apple. The group is demanding either $75,000 in crypto-currency (Bitcoin or Ethereum) or $100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards, according to Motherboard, the Vice Media online magazine.
If Apple does not reach into their deep pockets and pay up, the Turks are promising to delete all information, including photographs, held in 300 million iCloud and Apple accounts.
200 Million iCloud accounts will be factory reset on April 7 2017
— Turkish Crime Family (@turkcrimefamily) March 21, 2017
The factory reset eliminates all user information stored on an iPhone and, if they can do the same to the iCloud, any information like photos backed up will vanish into the ether as well.
The hackers sent screenshots of their emails with Apple to Motherboard, and Tim Cook’s team is refusing to pay the ransom so far.
Perhaps this year, April Fools day will fall on the 7th.
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This begs for a Dr Evil “1 BILLION DOLLARS” cover jpeg.
agreed, and updated lol
The twitter post says 200million, yet your title says 300 million and in the text 300 million….
+/- 100 million is a reasonable margin of error when dealing with Turkish hackers
Haha read the motherboard article, makes sense now… numbers r all over the place.. I’d love to see apple crushed in this, but it’ll prolly b y2k all over again ha
That’s all, eh? The content of 300MM accounts not worth even a bunch of iTunes cards to Apple.
best shirt i’ve seen this year said “it’s not really a cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer.”
Retarded?