Australians Jolted Awake to iOS Alarms Demanding Ransoms

Some Apple device owners in Australia were recently awoken in the middle of the night to a booming "Find My iPhone" alarm, along with a message that their devices had been hacked

An ominous message appeared on various iPhones, iPads and Mac computers across various regions in Australia early Monday morning, urging owners to send $50 to a PayPal account to unlock hacked devices. The incident was first reported by The Sydney Morning Herald

The prompt said the devices were hacked by "Oleg Pliss." A Google search for the name brought up a software engineer at Oracle, a banker in the Ukraine and others in Russia. It remains unclear at this point how the iOS devices were hacked, but affected users should update their iCloud passwords immediately. Read more...