Hackers Release 1 Million iOS Device UDIDs Obtained from FBI Laptop
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A hacker group calling itself Antisec is claiming that it has obtain over 1 Million iOS Device UDIDs from a FBI Laptop that it obtained back in March of this year. MacRumors.com has obtained a statement from a FBI rep which reads in part:
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“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 file that was found was said to contain over 12 million device records, including Apple UDIDs, usernames, push notification tokens, and in some instances, names, cell phone numbers, addresses and zip codes.
The group released the information, but had stripped some personal information from the list.
More on this developing story as we get more information.
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