Deacon923
Scooter Banks
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/09/check-if-you-own-one-1-million-hacked-iphones-and-ipads/56467/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/04/apple_udid_hack_antisec_steals_iphone_ipad_user_info_from_fbi_laptop.html
Some hacker group got hold of 12 million iPhone/iPad device identifiers and associated user information. They apparently are releasing the information to embarrass the FBI and Apple. See articles. Here is a quote:
During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc. the personal details fields referring to people appears many times empty leaving the whole list incompleted on many parts. no other file on the same folder makes mention about this list or its purpose.
The group suspects the FBI was using, or planned to use, the information to track Apple users. The FBI has yet to comment on the apparent breach, and it's unclear how it obtained the Apple IDs.
The news here is not that some hackers cracked an FBI computer, it's that the FBI had 12 million Apple user's personal information. I'd like to hear some rational explanation from the FBI as to what possible justification they have for tracking this information.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/04/apple_udid_hack_antisec_steals_iphone_ipad_user_info_from_fbi_laptop.html
Some hacker group got hold of 12 million iPhone/iPad device identifiers and associated user information. They apparently are releasing the information to embarrass the FBI and Apple. See articles. Here is a quote:
During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc. the personal details fields referring to people appears many times empty leaving the whole list incompleted on many parts. no other file on the same folder makes mention about this list or its purpose.
The group suspects the FBI was using, or planned to use, the information to track Apple users. The FBI has yet to comment on the apparent breach, and it's unclear how it obtained the Apple IDs.
The news here is not that some hackers cracked an FBI computer, it's that the FBI had 12 million Apple user's personal information. I'd like to hear some rational explanation from the FBI as to what possible justification they have for tracking this information.
