iCloud Hostage

Hackers holding 300 million iCloud account details to ransom raise their price to $700,000, despite assurances from Apple What a headline, however, are you surprised? This article is an update from the original story that broke about a week ago. The article claims that the “Turkish Crime Family” (TCF) has obtained the 300-million- iCloud accounts. 300 MILLION!

Apple has released a statement stating, “…That the data may have been obtained from other sites whose data has been breached.” That being said, the information could have been obtained from the two other large data breaches from Yahoo and LinkedIn. This go’s to show you should have a strong password or passphrase and should utilize some sort of multi factor authentication (One login, www.onelogin.com).

Article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4345644/Apple-hack-cyber-criminals-raise-ransom-700-000.html

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