Apple To Planet Earth: Hackers Are Full Of It
In response to a hacker group who wanted to get paid or iCloud users would get hit hard by them, Apple has decided to come out and say something about this threat. They told Fortune there have been no breaches of its systems:
There have not been any breaches in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud and Apple ID,” the spokesperson said. “The alleged list of email addresses and passwords appears to have been obtained from previously compromised third-party services.
The Apple spokesperson went on to say this:
The Apple spokesperson said that Apple is ” actively monitoring to prevent unauthorized access to user accounts and are working with law enforcement to identify the criminals involved. To protect against these type of attacks, we always recommend that users always use strong passwords, not use those same passwords across sites and turn on two-factor authentication.”
That’s good advice that I suggested yesterday which you should still follow. In the meantime, I hope the so called Turkish Crime Family liked its 15 minutes of fame. Because with this statement by Apple, it’s over.
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