iCloud EMAIL ACCOUNTS ON RED

You won't be surprised when a lot of people are complaining about their devices' freedom being hijacked by a group of hackers called "Turkish Crime Family".

This so called group of hackers is having access to 300 million iCloud accounts of Apple products users. They are threatening Apple to remotely wipe their own customers' data or else it should pay them a ransom of $750, 000 in Bitcoin or Ethereum crypto-currency or $100, 000 worth of iTunes gift cards on or before the 7th day of April.

Motherboard broke the story on Tuesday after a hacker claiming to represent his hacking group shared some screenshots of alleged emails between group and Apple's security team with the publication: " I just want my money and though this would be an interesting report that a lot of Apple customers would be interested in reading and hearing." he said to Motherboard.

A Youtube video was displayed to the Apple security team, demonstrating access to one of the hacked accounts and remotely wiping all content from the device.

This is so because if any apple device' user use iCloud in synchronizing his or her device, then his or her data may be at risk.

Inconsistency has been noticed as on its Twitter account, it claims to be having access to 200 million accounts while in the its email, it claimed 300 million accounts. There is still another where it claims a almost double of the one it claimed, 599 million Apple email accounts. Seeing this makes it difficult for Apple in realizing the reality. Apple warned the group it does not reward cyber criminals for breaking the law and asked them to remove the video from Youtube as it is seeking unnecessary attention.

The deadline is the 7th of April in which Apple may fortunately find a solution to the crisis, who knows. But you shouldn't be folding your arms till the moment, just follow our simple steps in protecting your account till then

-change your iCloud account's password frequently for better security

-mix up your password with numbers and special characters and symbols (if possible)

Doing this I hope you will be saved!