‘Turkish Crime Family’ Hacker Pleads Guilty to Apple Blackmail

  • Hacker sought crypto-currency, iTunes gift cards from Apple
  • Kerem Albayrak gets suspended after pleading guilty in U.K.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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A 22-year-old man who claimed he was the spokesman for a hacker group called the “Turkish Crime Family” pleaded guilty in London to trying to blackmail Apple Inc.

Kerem Albayrak demanded the tech giant transfer him $75,000 in crypto-currency or one thousand $100 iTunes gift cards, the National Crime Agency said in a statement. In return, he promised to delete a database that he claimed held 319 million iCloud and other Apple accounts.