Security News > 2017 > March > Police Arrest Man Potentially Linked to Group Threatening to Wipe Millions Of iPhones (The Hackers News)
2017-03-29 05:21
The British authority has reportedly arrested a 20-years-old young man – potentially one of the member of a cyber criminal gang 'Turkish Crime Family' who threatened Apple last week to remotely wipe data from millions of iOS devices unless Apple pays a ransom of $75,000. The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested a young man from London on Tuesday on suspicion of "Computer Misuse Act and
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