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FBI Can’t Secure Own Networks: Hactivists Breach Apple Devices– Acquire Over 12 Million User Names, Cell Phone Numbers, Addresses

Tuesday, September 4, 2012 20:53
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A hacktivist group associated with Anonymous claims it has lifted over 12 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIs) from an FBI computer and released 1 million of them as an archive. The leaked data includes names, phone numbers and addresses.

“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,” boasts the hacking group.

AntiSec’s archive lists 1,000,001 profiles including user names, devices names, cell phone numbers and addresses. The data was originally picked from Apple iOS devices, namely iPhones, iPads and iPods.  READ MORE HERE

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