Over the course of a year he repeatedly hacked into Apple's servers and stole around 90GB of data because he admired the company. Apple states no customers were affected by the breaches of its security.
The hackers behind the malware appear to have been selling the hijacked computing power on the mining platform NiceHash, according to Palo Alto Networks.
Desktop, mobile and internet of things systems are a growing part of our life, and we must be 100 percent confident that the convenience they deliver is secure.