To prove that it’s not bluff, the perpetrators from the “Turkish Crime Family” added a YouTube video where they ostensibly log into some victims’ breached iCloud accounts.
If these demands are met, the black hats promise to erase the cache of purportedly stolen information, otherwise they will start deleting the data or making it public knowledge. The deadline for making the payment is until April 7. As an alternative, the ransom can be submitted in $100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards. They ask for $75,000 in cryptocurrency, either Bitcoin or the growingly popular Ethereum. For Apple to settle the issue and thwart the worst-case scenario, the crooks have put forward a mercantile condition. Furthermore, the cache of all customer data that’s supposedly in the threat actors’ hands is a big privacy problem with potentially devastating consequences. The biggest concern has to do with the fact that anybody who gets access to one’s iCloud account can remotely wipe the victim’s Apple device. One way or another, the issue is extremely disconcerting. There is no plausible evidence regarding the exact quantity. First, it appeared to be around 300 million later on, an individual from the same syndicate stated it was 559 million and the latest reported figure is 627 million. The accurate number of accounts purportedly at risk is quite blurred at this point. A cybercriminal ring calling themselves the “Turkish Crime Family” approached a number of popular media companies, claiming to have hacked into hundreds of millions of, mac.com and me.com email accounts. These reports started hitting the headlines on March 21, 2017. Hundreds of millions of Apple accounts have been allegedly compromised in a defiant ransomware incident. Stay on top of the recent Apple hack incident where threat actors from the Turkish Crime Family group hold millions of iCloud and other accounts for ransom.