A 22-year-old Londoner has been given 300 hours of community service and a State-enforced bedtime after trying to blackmail Apple with hundreds of millions of previously compromised login credentials.
read more (the register uk)
Kerem Albayrak, 22, demanded Apple give him $75,000 in crypto-currency or a thousand $100 iTunes gift cards. If the maker of shiny white electronic stuff didn't comply, Albayrak said he would factory-reset 319 million iCloud accounts and "dump his databases online if his demands were not met," according to the National Crime Agency.
On 12 March 2017 Albayrak emailed Apple Security claiming to have iCloud account details which he planned to sell online on behalf of his "internet buddies." A week later he filmed himself accessing two apparently random iCloud accounts, posting the video on YouTube and sending the link to Apple, as well as multiple media outlets.
Two days later the demand increased to $100,000 and a threat to factory-reset every iCloud account he had access to. Last year CNBC quoted analysts estimating that Apple hosted around 850 million iCloud accounts, meaning Albayrak was threatening just under a third of all iCloud accounts in existence.
Apple contacted law enforcement in the UK and US and the NCA led the UK investigation.
read more (the register uk)
read more (the register uk)
Kerem Albayrak, 22, demanded Apple give him $75,000 in crypto-currency or a thousand $100 iTunes gift cards. If the maker of shiny white electronic stuff didn't comply, Albayrak said he would factory-reset 319 million iCloud accounts and "dump his databases online if his demands were not met," according to the National Crime Agency.
On 12 March 2017 Albayrak emailed Apple Security claiming to have iCloud account details which he planned to sell online on behalf of his "internet buddies." A week later he filmed himself accessing two apparently random iCloud accounts, posting the video on YouTube and sending the link to Apple, as well as multiple media outlets.
Two days later the demand increased to $100,000 and a threat to factory-reset every iCloud account he had access to. Last year CNBC quoted analysts estimating that Apple hosted around 850 million iCloud accounts, meaning Albayrak was threatening just under a third of all iCloud accounts in existence.
Apple contacted law enforcement in the UK and US and the NCA led the UK investigation.
read more (the register uk)
