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[Piggus]

"I just want my money"

Seriously, is that so much to ask?! The world owes me things!

 

[The Real Abed]

Go ahead and wipe them. That's why you keep both a cloud and local backup.

I love that he calls it "my money". Oh fuck off.

 

[OmegaFax]

They might as well ask for 150,000 Chuck-E-Cheese tokens because Apple isn't giving in to this shit.

 

[Joel Was Right]

Can you still do this with 2-factor authentication?

 

[Lord Error]

Apple responded today:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/22/apple-responds-to-hack-threats/

In response to a ransom threat in which hackers are claiming to have access to more than 600 million iCloud accounts, Apple told Fortune there have been no breaches of its systems.

Instead, if the hackers do have access to iCloud accounts, Apple suggests previously compromised third-party services are at fault. From an Apple spokesperson:
There have not been any breaches in any of Apple's systems including iCloud and Apple ID," the spokesperson said. "The alleged list of email addresses and passwords appears to have been obtained from previously compromised third-party services."

Can you still do this with 2-factor authentication?

Yes. You can log in with find my phone serice using just your apple id and password, and wipe the device, even with 2FA enabled. There would be no point to remote wipe if this wasn't possible.

I think it would be a good idea to change the password if there's even a remote possibility you used the same password somewhere else at some point.