Yesterday Miguel told you how a group of hackers, under the name of "Turkish Crime Family", claimed to have access data to hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts and were blackmailing Apple, asking $ 75.000 in exchange for abandoning that data, or whatever Otherwise they would access those accounts and erase the data they contained. The news, which seemed rather taken from "El Mundo Today" both for the payment methods requested (Bitcoins or iTunes cards) and for the required amount itself, It has been denied by Apple that ensures that there has not been any security breach that has compromised the accounts of its users.
The number of accounts allegedly compromised has been on the rise since the news appeared and already goes by about 600 million iCloud accounts. Apple assures that if these hackers have obtained these accounts, it will be through third-party services that have seen their security compromised and have revealed that data. The economic figure required has also risen from the initial $ 75.000 to the $ 150.000 that they are now asking for.. Is the risk of compromised iCloud accounts real or not?
If someone wanted to blackmail a company like Apple with hundreds of millions of hacked user accounts, the truth is that a figure of $ 150.000 seems absolutely ridiculous, as does the payment method. Although this story seems more like a bluff than a reality, it is possible that with the security flaws of services such as Yahoo, these hackers have taken access data of users using the same credentials for their iCloud accounts. However with the new two factor authentication It seems more than complicated that even if you have the account and password, you can access anyone's account without one of their trusted devices. The deadline is April 7, so we will know the outcome of this story soon.