Turkish Crime Family hacker group leader Kerem Albayrak’s threat to Apple by illegally obtaining the iCloud account information of 300 million users had repercussions all over the world. It was revealed that the leader of the hacker group, who was learned to live in London despite being Turkish and was arrested by the police teams after Apple’s complaint, demanded the ransom of $ 175,000 in Bitcoin or as an iTunes gift card before he was caught on the ransom request. The Turkish hacker, who threatened to share information that would put Apple in a difficult situation on social media, started to take more drastic steps to deal with the issue and solve the problems in its systems after the Turkish hacker was caught.
He put us all at risk
After this step of the Turkish hacker, 300 million users were at risk. Kerem Albayrak, who thought that he would not be caught by accepting payment with Bitcoin, was traced and arrested as a result of research by Apple’s engineers and officials. While the investigation into the incident is still ongoing, no statement was made to the press about whether the information was completely deleted and a few other details. It has been announced that Apple has taken precautions.