Hackers Leak 1 Million Apple Device IDs2012-09-04 09:15 by DanielaTags: hackers, security, Apple
Last night, hackers of the Antisec group announced that they had dumped 1,000,001 unique device identifier numbers or UDIDs for Apple devices–the fingerprints that Apple, apps and ad networks use to identify the iPhone and iPads of individual users. They claim to have stolen the records from the FBI. The 20-byte ID codes were copied from a file extracted from the Dell notebook of a senior federal agent, who was tracking the activities of hacktivists in LulzSec, Anonymous and related groups. Supervisor Special Agent Christopher Stangl's machine was compromised via a AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability in Java in March, the hackers claim. The group says the database included not only the UDIDs, but also "user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc."
However, Apple has recently started rejecting apps that access UDIDs due to privacy concerns. This study from 2010 claims the UDID creates a "tempting opportunity for use as a tracking agent or to correlate with other personally-identifiable information in unintended ways." Read more -here-
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