Hacker who blackmailed Apple gets Christmas present from the judge

An IT analyst who held Apple to ‘ransom’ by posing as the Turkish mafia online and threatening to hack 382 million iCloud accounts has been spared jail. Kerem Albayrak, 22, blackmailed the American tech giant after posting a video of himself on YouTube illegally accessing users’ private photographs and personal details. The Turk sent emails demanding $75,000 (around £50,000) worth of Bitcoin or $100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards. He raised the demand to to $100,000 (around £77,000) worth of…