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Apple Denies FBI Had Access To UDIDs

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-our-fault dept.

First time accepted submitter WIn5t0n writes "Just a day after the alleged leak of 12million Apple UDID's, both Apple and FBI have denied the story that Anonymous, a global hacking community, gained access to the files by hacking into an FBI laptop through a Java vulnerability. Earlier this morning the FBI claimed that, even though the agent cited in Anonymous's story is an actual FBI operative, neither he nor anyone else in the agency has or has had access to Apple device information. This afternoon Apple followed up on the FBI's statement, with an unidentified Apple representative claiming that, 'The FBI has not requested this information from Apple, nor have we provided it to the FBI or any organization.' It should also be noted that while the hackers claim to have accessed 12 million UDID's, only 1 million were publicly released. The Apple representative who made the previous statements also said that, 'Apple has replaced the types of identifiers the hackers appear to have gotten and will be discontinuing their use.' Even though neither Anonymous nor the FBI/APPLE will admit where the data actually came from, it does appear that at least some of the leaked UDID's are legit and can be tied back to current, privately owned devices. So far no information besides the devices UDID, DevToken ID, and device name has been released, however the original hackers claimed that some devices were tied to details as exact as phone numbers and billing addresses."

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  1. It's been said hundreds of times already... by Revotron · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Any old fart app can pull the UDID and send it to a central server. It does NOT take much to push an app through, grab yourself some UDIDs, Google the name of some random FBI agent with a very important-sounding title, and attribute everything to your 1337 skillz.

    I don't know what's more worrying: the fact that people still can't grasp this concept, or the fact that people take everything AntiSec says as gospel.

    This is the third fucking Apple UDID story in 24 hours. Can we please move on to shit that actually matters?