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Londoner who tried to blackmail Apple with 300m+ iCloud account resets was reusing stale old creds

Londoner who tried to blackmail Apple with 300m+ iCloud account resets was reusing stale old creds

4 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/24/kerem_albayrak_apple_icloud_blackmail_sentenced/

A 22-year-old Londoner has been given 300 hours of community service and a State-enforced bedtime after trying to blackmail Apple with hundreds of millions of previously compromised login credentials.

Kerem Albayrak, 22, demanded Apple give him $75,000 in crypto-currency or a thousand $100 iTunes gift cards. If the maker of shiny white electronic stuff didn't comply, Albayrak said he would factory-reset 319 million iCloud accounts and "dump his databases online if his demands were not met," according to the National Crime Agency.