A Young British Tried Blackmail Apple After Allegedly Hacking iCloudByBill Toulas-December 21, 2019.519 The man told the court that he had become addicted to the increase in the false status of online crime. The Nca affirmed the hacker did not hold anyway the user data that he said he had. Today at the Southwark Crown Court, a 22-year-old London man named Kerem Albayrak was sentenced to imprisonment. The man pleaded guilty to extortion and illegal actions against Apple’s networks earning six months of electronic restraint and 300 hours of unpaid community work from two years in prison. Albayrak admitted that he dived into the world of cyber-crime and quickly got drawn into it as it is easy to get addicted to the glory of recognition and money that comes from the illegal activity that continues. Admittedly, however, Albayrak has bitten more than he could chew here as blackmailing a tech giant like Apple is probably not a great idea overall. The hacker threatened to make the 319 iCloud accounts data public by selling them over the dark web while at the same time telling Apple he was trying to reset them. A thousand $100 iTunes gift cards or $75,000 in crypto coins is the ransom he asked for. In order to prove he had access to iCloud accounts, he filmed himself accessing a sample of them, posting it on YouTube and then submitting a request to Apple Security. Two days after that and he raised demand to $100,000 with Apple not responding. Still Apple has not succumbed and notified the law enforcement agencies of Uk and Us so the Nca Cyber Crime Unit has been able to track the hacker and arrest him. The police found and seized phones and hard drives from computers during the raid at the man’s home in Hornsey London. According to the investigation findings that followed Albayrak issued empty threats to Apple, as he hadn’t been able to hack into millions of iCloud accounts as he said. He used stolen passwords instead to access the two accounts he used for his presentation and that was it. Read more [ pic.twitter.com/wlCjmcrjr ] NCA (@Nca Uk) December 20, 2019 iCloud isn’t an easy platform to hack. Apple pays great attention to keeping iCloud stable and safe so that very often we don’t see real reports of hacking into it. Nearly a year ago we reported the reports of a Turkish security researcher who managed to somehow partially access other people’s iCloud account data using their phone numbers only. Apple never explained whether that was due to a zero-day vulnerability or a security flaw but they told the press that the problem was fixed anyway.