Hacking Collective AntiSec Released Around 12 Million Apple IDs

On September 4 hacking aggregate AntiSec appear about 12 actor Apple IDs which, the accumulation claims, were acquired from a database on a computer acclimated by a affiliate of US authoritative bureau the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The accumulation claims to accept afraid an FBI agent's laptop and extracted a account of claimed capacity from over 12 actor Apple users. The advice is anticipation to accommodate Unique Accessory Identifiers (UDID), usernames, names, types of device, zipcodes, cellphone numbers and alike addresses of Apple users.

AntiSec has appear 1,000,001 UDIDs forth with the accessory blazon as affidavit of the hack, admitting added claimed advice has been removed. AntiSec's statement, which can be begin at: http://goo.gl/qiG8t, reads:

"During the additional anniversary of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, acclimated by [a] Supervisor Special Agent ... from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached application the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java[;] during the carapace affair some files were downloaded from his Desktop folder[:] one of them with the name of "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" angry [out] to be a account of 12,367,232 Apple iOS accessories including Unique Accessory Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device, blazon of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc. the claimed capacity fields apropos to bodies appears abounding times abandoned abrogation the accomplished account incompleted on abounding parts. no added book on the aforementioned binder makes acknowledgment about this account or its purpose."

While it is currently cryptic area the FBI would accept originally sourced the advice from the hack, if it proves to be legitimate, the analysis raises austere questions about what the federal anatomy would be accomplishing with such information.

Twitter users accept reacted in acerbity to the account blame 'FBI' into the top ten common trending capacity at 12:30pm GMT on September 4. Users are calling the drudge "mbarrassing for the FBI," as able-bodied as absorption about aloofness concerns, and analytic the affidavit that addition in the FBI ability accept that advice and what they would be accomplishing  with it. Millions of Twitter users about the apple are additionally administration links to letters on the AntiSec hack. 


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