AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI
breach
4th September 2012 by Josh Ong
hack
The AntiSec hacking group claims to have released a set of more than 1
million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the
FBI. The group claims to have over 12 million IDs, as well as personal
information such as user names, device names, notification tokens, cell
phone numbers and addresses.
The hackers issued a statement with the following description on how the
data was obtained:
"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."
They published the UDID numbers to call attention to suspicions that the FBI
used the information to track citizens. Much of the personal data has been
trimmed, however, with the hackers claiming to have left enough for "a
significant amount of users" to search for their devices.
If AntiSec's account of the breach is accurate, the NCFTA acronym in the
filename would likely refer to the National Cyber-Forensics & Training
Alliance, a non-profit corporation of experts from both the private and
public sector that investigates cyber-crimes.
TNW has contacted the FBI for comment. Meanwhile, AntiSec says it will not
provide further statements or interviews until a mysterious request is
fulfilled - to have a photo of a Gawker staff writer dressed in a tutu
featured on the company's homepage.
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