Hackers threaten to wipe millions of Apple devices, demand ransom

Macworld
Mar 22, 2017, 1:05 pm1.3k ptsHotTop
A group of hackers is threatening to wipe data from millions of Apple devices in two weeks if the company doesn’t pay them $150,000. The group, which calls itself Turkish Crime Family, claims to have login credentials for more than 627 million icloud.com, me.com and mac.com email addresses. These are email…

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