Reports of hackers supposedly holding 300+ million Apple Accounts Hostage

[DarlaMack]

Apple says it fixed Mac and iOs vulnerabilities in Wikileaks CIA docs years ago - Business Insider

 

[LockOnTech]

If they claim to have this massive cache of apple id accounts and have threaten to wipe it remotely (which I agree I have a hard time believing this) wouldn't a physical backup using itunes on a pc or mac and encrypt the backup using a password be a good failsafe if this were to be reality?

 

[robertk328]

If they claim to have this massive cache of apple id accounts and have threaten to wipe it remotely (which I agree I have a hard time believing this) wouldn't a physical backup using itunes on a pc or mac and encrypt the backup using a password be a good failsafe if this were to be reality?

Or change your password so they can't get in And definitely have two-factor turned on! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915

 

[Rob Phillips]

Yes... definitely this!

I change passwords on everything every 6 months... lol

Best practice right here.

And don't use the same password for everything! Your Apple ID password should be completely unique from every single one of your other passwords IMO. And use COMPLEX passwords—- mix of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters.

The problem isn't Apple's security, it's the fact that people replicate their Apple ID passwords to other sites that are getting hacked. I experienced this a few years back. My Newegg account was hacked and they got into other sites simply because they had my Newegg login info and I used the same username and password combo on other sites.

 

[LockOnTech]

Looks like it is safe to say that the ransom was bogus.

 

[Jude526]

Me too