1. The factors that made the hackers attack Apple could have been because they were attempting to gain access to the coding used for apps on Apple products in order to infect millions of users and steal their data. They would study the code to figure out how to manipulate and modify it in order to breach the security systems on the Apple products. The hackers also want to steal sensitive data such as passwords and email addresses in order to gain access to other applications which uses the same passwords or email address the user had. This would allow them to then exploit more applications and access more networks which they could hack and gain more data from. This is a threat to the technology industry as it leaves users vulnerable and exploits