Apple brushes off threat by hackers to erase millions of iPhones

Apple has dismissed out of hand unsubstantiated claims made by an unknown group of hackers who claim to have obtained access to hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts, pointing out that none of its systems had been breached.
A group calling itself the Turkish Crime Family claimed to have stolen account details of up to 300m iCloud users and demanded a payment of $75,000 Bitcoins or $100k in iTunes gift cards by 7 April or reset each and every one of them, remotely deleting linked Apple devices