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Police Arrest Man Potentially Linked to Group Threatening to Wipe Millions Of iPhones

The UK’s National Crime Agency has reportedly arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of ‘Turkish Crime Family’ The group threatened Apple last week to remotely wipe data from millions of iOS devices unless Apple pays a ransom of $75,000. Apple said in a statement that there have not been any breaches to its servers and databases; instead, the data in possession with hackers appears to be from previously compromised third-party services, such as LinkedIn. The group has given Apple a deadline until April 7 to pay up the ransom.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/apple-extortion-icloud-hack.html

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