The extortion did not come to fruition and finally the hacker or attempted hacker who wanted to blackmail the company was left with the desire. And is that Kerem Albayrak, supposed "head" of a group of hackers who called themselves "Turkish Crime Family" he was finally arrested.
What they asked for. In this case, the cost with which they wanted to blackmail Apple was high and that is that they asked for $ 100.000 in iTunes gift cards so as not to publish the more than 319 million iCloud accounts to which they supposedly had access. This did not materialize and the iCloud accounts these hackers talked about seem like they were never in danger.
Apple confirmed that they did not have access to these accounts
The own Apple confirmed that they never had access to iCloud accounts of which they claimed to have and therefore all this was more a scam than a real case of access to the accounts. Ultimately what ended up happening to this young 22-year-old Londoner is that he was arrested by the UK National Cybercrime Unit and all the material he had at his home was seized for investigation.
Apple's complaint about this scam attempt reached the competent authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom a few months ago and everything finally ended with the arrest of Albayrak, which possibly ends up in the shadows for a season due to this attempt to scam a large company such as Apple.