Got email demanding money. Knew my email password

Unfortunately, this is a very common scam attempt. Do not interact with the message or the sender. Delete the email. If you haven’t already, change the password for the noted email service.

Winterman001 wrote:

Has anyone else got this type of message?

Everyone has gotten that exact message. Change your passwords.

Use the Passwords setting on your iPhone to find weak passwords and passwords that you've shared across accounts. Remember that most passwords that you create with online services are NOT secure. Those places are constantly getting hacked. That's how they got your password in the first place. So make sure each service has its own strong password.

I got an email this morning at 5:45 basically saying the same thing. I looked it up and they said it’s more than likely a scam and you probably weren’t hacked. When I looked it up Apple said that if it wasn’t an official Apple.com email then you more than likely weren’t hacked at all. And you’ll know if you’ve been hacked if you receive an email from Apple.com themselves saying someone has logged into your email on a different device. Hope this helps