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<p>While the available evidence suggests that hackers have not gained
direct
access to more than 600 million iCloud accounts, some of the sample login credentials supplied by the group have been found to be valid.
<a href="
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-icloud-ransom-what-you-need-to-know/
" target="_blank">ZDNet[/url]
, for example, used Apple’s password reset function to test 54 logins supplied by the hackers, and found that all of them worked.</p>
<p>Apple has said that there have <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/22/apple-denies-allegations-a-hacker-group-is-holding-600m-icloud-accounts-for-ransom/
" target="_blank">been no breaches[/url] of its own systems, and that the credentials likely came from ‘previously compromised third-party services.’ Most of the account owners contacted by
ZDNet
lent weight to this claim …</p>
<p> <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/24/how-to-protect-your-icloud-account/#more-473769
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