2 days ago I told you that Apple is being blackmailed by Turkish hackers who claim to have gained access to 300 million iCloud accounts whose data I can delete. They demanded 75.000 dollars from the Apple company not to start deleting this data at the beginning of April, the information generating a real controversy all over the world.
In the face of such serious accusations, and the fact that in reality 600 million iCloud accounts would be in danger, the Apple company stated that the iCloud servers were not hacked. More precisely, the Apple company claims that a third-party system of similar services has been hacked, and from there the hackers have the respective data regarding the Apple IDs of the Apple company.
Despite this, the Apple company collaborates with the American authorities and monitors the situation to ensure that user data is safe. Apple claims that it requires users to use complicated passwords in order to be safe from hackers, and this requirement is always imposed by various services.
There is a possibility that the hackers obtained this data from Yahoo, which claims that over 1 billion customers have been affected by hacks carried out in recent years. If this is true, then Apple can do nothing but reset Apple ID passwords and nothing more to secure customer accounts.
"There have not been any breaches in any of Apple's systems including iCloud and Apple ID. The alleged list of email addresses and passwords appears to have been obtained from previously compromised third-party services. Apple is actively monitoring to prevent unauthorized access to user accounts and is working with law enforcement to identify the criminals involved. To protect against these types of attacks, we always recommend that users always use strong passwords, not use those same passwords across sites and turn on two-factor authentication."
