“Apple’s iCloud account appears to have been so severely hacked by some urbane hackers that some iPhones have essentially been held hostage for Russian ransomware. It is guessed that an astounding 40 million iCloud accounts (approximately) are rumoured to be at risk, according to CSO Online….At this point of time, there is no evidence to suggest that the Mac-Forums database has any relation to these ransom attacks. However, if you wish to tread caution, it is highly recommended that you immediately change your iCloud password, and if you haven’t already, enable two-step verification. Both these changes can be done inside of your iCloud Settings screen.” – Techworm

Just a word to the wary…”At this point of time, there is no evidence to suggest that the Mac-Forums database has any relation to these ransom attacks. However, if you wish to tread caution, it is highly recommended that you immediately change your iCloud password, and if you haven’t already, enable two-step verification. Both these changes can be done inside of your iCloud Settings screen.”

I’m thinking that 40 million figure might be overblown, if only because had something way smaller (say by a factor of of one hundred) were going on, there would have been notifications in all the security forums, and someone would have twigged to that very quickly.

This via Hankers…thanks, Hank.

Source:

http://www.techworm.net/2016/07/40-million-icloud-accounts-hacked-hackers-hold-ios-devices-ransom.html