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« on: December 23, 2019, 04:05:20 pm »

22-year-old London man who tried to extort Apple will not serve prison time

Kerem Albayrak demanded $100,000 in bitcoin after threatening to factory reset 382 million iCloud accounts.

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A 22-year-old man from London who tried to extort Apple will not face jail.
Kerem Alyabyark demanded Apple give him $100,00 in bitcoin.
He posed as a Turkish crime family and said that he could factory reset 382 million iCloud accounts.


A 22-year-old man from London who tried to extort Apple will not face jail time.

Kerem Albayrak, from Hornsey in north London, originally demanded $75,000 from Apple, or a thousand $100 iTunes gift cards in exchange for not releasing the logins and passwords of iCloud accounts in an attempt to gain online fame.

As reported by MailOnline, then aged 19, Albayrak made wild and varied brags to his friends, claiming to some that he could access 200 million accounts, and to others that he had the ability to factory reset 382 million iCloud accounts.

According to the report he later upped his demand to $100,000 in bitcoin....

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