An Apple device user in China revealed he has been threatened by Apple employees. The employee threatened to spread all his files stored on iCloud, including photos, emails, contacts.
According to the user, the threat is because he asked the company to remove his iCloud account.
Citing the Softpedia page, Monday (3/12/2018), the story was uploaded on Weibo social networking site by the intended users. Initially, users with this Qin clan contacted Apple and asked the company to close its iCloud account.
The iCloud account closure request was made because Qin did not want it to be held by China's state-owned technology company, Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Development Co., Ltd.
Previously, Apple did decide to move the data center Chinese users to servers in the country. This also reap the pros and cons related to data privacy.
Qin said he told Apple employees over the phone that he wanted to close his iCloud account because he had not used the account for some time.
Talks between the two were heating up, even had a fight. Qin also calls the employee's behavior arrogant and has neglected to carry out his duties.
Still on the same day, Qin said he was called by someone suspected of being an Apple employee who had served him. The employee asked Qin to check his email address connected to iCloud.
Threatens Leaking Data
According to Qin, the employee who worked as Apple's senior adviser threatened him to leak all the Qin files in the cloud if not send a friend request within one hour.
Qin later explained that although he sent a friend request, the request was never received by the employee.
He called the employee again, though the Apple employee even mentioned all the Qin information in the iCloud account had been copied.
"I can not expect you to die, but at least it can make you trouble," the clerk said.
To local media Sixth Tone, Qin said he reported the case to the police and Apple began an investigation.
Furthermore, employees who threatened Qin reportedly been fired. Unfortunately, no mention of any data belonging to Qin has been copied. "I started getting calls from unknown callers," he said.
Apple Has No Comments
This story is related to the company's efforts to move their cloud data center to China. Nevertheless, there are some details in disguised reports that raise questions about the truth.
Apple's true technology company never allows low-class employees to access users' iCloud data. Such information is only disclosed at the request of the government.
Other oddities, phone numbers and email addresses of users can be obtained from various sources, especially if the user's account can be seen by the public.
So, there is no evidence of whether the fraudulent person is an Apple employee and gained access to iCloud data. Meanwhile, Apple has not given an official statement related to this incident.
