No one doubts the business of computer security that it is very lucrative. Whether you are within the law or outside of it. The difference is that if you are in the first, It will never happen to you as the hacker who tried to blackmail Apple.
Let it be clear that a hacker is not a person who is always outside the law, But if it is true that some of them like adventure more than others.
A hacker who wanted to get gold at Apple's expense
A very young London hacker has been brought before the authorities after trying to blackmail, in 2017, to the American company with selling data from thousands of Apple customers.
At 22, this computer genius has been found guilty of trying to blackmail Apple with $ 100.000 in iTunes gift cards.
The point is that this person falsely claimed to have access to more than 319 million iCloud accounts, And if he didn't get paid, he would give Apple a hard time. I would sell this access on the black market.
Apple verified that the threat was not true and reported this extortion attempt to the authorities. He reported it to both the competent authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The statement that has been issued for this purpose reads the following:
Officers from the National Cybercrime Unit arrested Kerem Albayrak at his home in North London. Digital devices were seized, including his phone, computers and hard drive.
They found phone records that showed Albayrak was the Spokesman for a group of hackers, calling themselves the "Turkish Crime Family."
What Apple has wanted to make very clear is that there has never been such access and therefore the users of devices of the American company, can, we can be calm.
Research the ANC also confirmed Apple's findings that there were no signs of a compromise on the network. The data Albayrak claimed to have was actually from previously compromised third-party services that were mostly inactive.
