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    Default Hackers Release Personal Data from 1 Million Apple Product Owners

    ... and claim to have data on another 11 million already hacked and tracked by the FBI ... from


    (snip)"Several hours ago, the latest hacker group to gain prominence, AntiSec, a subset of Anonymous, disclosed that it had obtained the confidential user data contained in some some 12 million Apple units after hacking an FBI Dell Vostro notebook computer, "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" which contined a file titled NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv, which "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." In other words, the FBI had the personal data of a substantial number of Apple device users, certainly all of which had been obtained without prior permission. Naturally the question here is why on earth does the FBI have this data, and as TNW suggests, "They published the UDID numbers to call attention to suspicions that the FBI used the information to track citizens. Much of the personal data has been trimmed, however, with the hackers claiming to have left enough for “a significant amount of users” to search for their devices." AntiSec has subsequently released one million of these UUIDs and their associated data."(snip)

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    Default Re: Hackers Release Personal Data from 1 Million Apple Product Owners

    Why did they hacked apple a week before the release of the iphone 5 ?

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    Default Re: Hackers Release Personal Data from 1 Million Apple Product Owners

    ^^^ apparently the timing was completely opportunistic - based on obtaining access to an FBI supervisor's notebook computer files ( by whatever means, they don't say ). At least based on the assertions of hackers AntiSec / Anonymous, the FBI had already obtained info on 12 million Apple owners and was already using that info for 'unknown' purposes - which the hackers' release of ~1 million Apple owners' data from the FBI files was intended to draw attention to.

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