Do you remember hearing some time ago about a group of hackers who were demanding ransom money from Apple while holding over 300 million iCloud accounts hostage? If you aren’t familiar with what iCloud is, it’s basically many people’s entire life. It’s an external storage component that Apple has created that holds all types of information. Many people have their bank account information, social security information as well as other privately saved pictures and personal documents stored in the cloud. The cloud itself is much more complex and complicated to explain than what I tried to do for you, but you get the basics – it holds a lot of important information.
Well, it seems that this same group of hackers is now turning to a new method to getting their money. They’re now using phone numbers they find on the database of Apple users and claim to be with Apple iCloud support and demanding the people’s log in information as there may be a suspected breach. Once the frightened customer gives up their log in info, the hackers end the call and use the information to see what documents they can take. They’ve drained people’s bank accounts as well as stole people’s social security numbers and other important documents they have stored in their personal cloud account.
So, in short, if you or someone you know gets a call claiming to be Apple support just hang up the phone. Apple doesn’t reach out to customers in this way, and they wouldn’t need anything from you outside of your answer to a known security question.
H/T Daily Mail
