Earlier this week, a group of hackers claimed to have email addresses and passwords for hundreds of millions of Apple accounts, and that it would use this information to remotely erase massive numbers of iPhones if a ransom weren’t paid. For its part, Apple says no account information was stolen from its servers.
If this purloined personal data exists, Apple tells Fortune, it likely came from a compromised third party, not from Apple’s network.
https://consumerist.com/2017/03/23/a...ns-of-iphones/
If this purloined personal data exists, Apple tells Fortune, it likely came from a compromised third party, not from Apple’s network.
“There have not been any breaches in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud and Apple ID,” an Apple spokesperson told Fortune. “The alleged list of email addresses and passwords appears to have been obtained from previously compromised third-party services.”
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