Apple denies millions of iCloud accounts have been compromised

For a couple of days, several technology blogs echoed a rumor in which it was claimed that the Cupertino boys were receiving el blackmail of a group of Turkish hackers, in which they were required to pass $ 75.000 in bitcoins. These alleged hackers claimed that they could have access to all the company's iCloud accounts, with which they could also access all the bank details that are stored with Apple IDs. Surely if you had read the news you thought that I had neither head nor tail.

Although it has taken longer than normal, Apple has officially confirmed that at no time iCloud accounts have been compromised despite the alleged evidence that the hackers had sent to the company. According to the statement published in Fortune, "iCloud accounts have not been compromised at any time, there is no security breach in any of the systems related to iCloud or Apple IDs."

To begin with, if a hacker had access to all iCloud accounts andThe rescue would not have been of such a small important, but it would have been of a much greater amount than the supposedly demanded. The hackers were part of the group The Turkish Crime Family. The first news related to this alleged hack affected 300 million accounts. Within hours, that number increased to 627 million accounts.

This group required Apple to pay $ 75.000 in bitcoins before April 7 or else they would begin to remotely erase devices by making public all the information that was stored in them. This group published tests that Apple determined were not determinativeas these are simple email captures.


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