Your iPhone has been taken hostage. Pay $100 ransom to get it back

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinMay 27, 2014, 1:40 pm1.2k ptsHot
A large number of people mostly located in Australia are reporting they have come under an unexplained attack that holds their iPhones and iPads hostage and demands they pay a $100 ransom. The attack appears to work by compromising iCloud accounts associated with the disabled devices, according to an Apple…

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