I really hate headlines that end in a question mark. So it would take a legitimate question to make me put one in mine. Im only a half-techie, so I would be quite interested in seeing some of you more advanced techies shed some light on this.
AntiSec Releases 1 million Apple Id's
The hacker group AntiSec has released 1 million Apple device IDs that they say they obtained from an FBI computer they hacked.
The hackers say they actually stole 12 million IDs, including personal information, from the hacked FBI computer, but released only 1 million in an encrypted file published on torrent sites.
So the obvious questions are... what is an FBI agent doing with 12 million ID's stored on his computer? How are these ID's being used? Did apple supply this list? Etc etc.
Just a little more from the story:
In a lengthy post online, the hackers wrote that last March, they hacked a laptop belonging to an FBI agent named Christopher K. Stangl from the bureau’s Regional Cyber Action Team and the New York FBI office’s Evidence Response Team.
The hackers say the IDs were stored in a file on Stangl’s desktop titled “NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv.”
The file, according to the hackers, contained a list of more than 12 million Apple iOS devices, including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, names of devices, types of devices, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, ZIP codes, cellphone numbers, and addresses. The hackers released only 1 million UDIDs, however, and did not release the accompanying personal information for the IDs.