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A hacking group said it had access to more than 300 million user accounts andCloud accounts. Hackers claim they are ready and, above all, determined to completely erase all user data from hundreds of millions ofCloud accounts if they do not receive from the company by April 7th Apple required payment.

The group, which is called the Turkish Crime Family, demanded an amount of 75 thousand dollars, either in Bitcoin or Ethereum currency, otherwise it will delete the given data. Motherboard broke the news after speaking with several people who claimed to be part of the group on Tuesday morning. An alternative to the above amount was iTunes gift cards worth $100.

Members of the Turkish Crime Family provided Motherboard with a video, screenshotyz emails and access to an email account allegedly used for correspondence with the company's security team Apple. The Cupertino company's representatives refused to comply with the group's demands, threatening to hand over the matter to the authorities. A video uploaded by the hackers to YouTube shows the group scrolling through a series of stolen iCloud Shortly after Motherboard reported the threat, an update appeared on Twitter, purportedly from members of the Turkish Crime Family. In the tweet, the alleged members of the group repeated their threats.

However, the group is not very consistent. Some of its members claim to have around 300 million iCloud accounts, but others say 559 milliononeTurkish Crime Family Twitter group talks about 200 milliononestolen andCloud accounts. Company Apple refuses to comment on this case yet.

Cyberattacks on users' personal data are a relatively serious topic, and specificallyCloud has already experienced a wide range of threats of various kinds. The most famous case is the scandal with celebrity accounts from 2014, when a number of their intimate photos were leaked online. In this case, however, the problem stemmed more from weak individual account protection than from a mistake on the company's part. Apple.

The Turkish Crime Family has not given the public any insight into how they got hold of the accounts, which doesn't make the whole thing doubly credible. The evidence it provided to Motherboard says nothing about its members' actual ability to carry out their threats.

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Source: Mashable

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