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Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs

Posted by timothy on from the don't-forget-the-one dept.

Orome1 writes "A file containing a million and one record sets containing Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) and some other general information about the devices has been made available online by Anonymous hackers following an alleged breach of an FBI computer. '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,' the hackers claim." Update: 09/04 13:44 GMT by T : A piece at SlashCloud points out that if the leak is genuine, this raises some sticky questions about privacy and security; in particular: "[H]ow did the agency obtain said information, and to what purpose? Why did all that personal data reside on the laptop of one special agent?"

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  1. catchy job title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team

    This guy must have business cards 2 feet wide.

  2. FS by Altanar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eh, if the FBI wants to know where I am at all times, they can follow me on Foursquare like everyone else.

  3. Re:So is apple... by gandhi_2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm more interested in why a high-budget outfit like the FBI is buying Vostros!

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  4. Re:So is apple... by GNious · · Score: 4, Funny

    So Apple can now drag both the FBI and Anonymous to court over copyright infringement? Nice ...

    1 million UIDs, value at [price of iPad or iPhone], should be pretty nice income for Apple's legal department.

  5. Re:All your UUIDs are belong to us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Those health insurance premiums... increased lately?

  6. Re:So is apple... by BlueStrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article I read the laptop was owned by the agent not the FBI which raises a whole pant load of other questions.

    No, it's actually quite simple.

    The agent was in the process of collecting data, etc for the purpose of starting his own FBI.

    With blackjack.

    And hookers.

    But the Secret Service got mad because blackjack & hookers were their gig, and so they hacked this FBI agent's computer and released the data to Anonymous.

    The SS doesn't want to have their agents blow into town only to find all the blackjack and hookers are already booked solid by these new-FBI agents.

    Strat

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