Selasa, 04 September 2012

Hackers Leak 1 Million iPhone UDIDs into the Wild


Antisec, a well known group of hackers, broke into an FBI laptop and downloaded a list of 12 million iPhones complete with UDIDs (unique device identifier), of which 1 million got leaked out.

The hacker group has reportedly released a dump of 1 million unique identifiers from iOS devices late last night.

The hackers explained that, “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.

Antisec downloaded downloaded some files from his Desktop folder during the shell session. One of them bore the name of "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv"

The file turned to be a list of no less than 12 million Apple iOS devices including unique device identifiers (UDID).

The file also contained “user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc,” the hackers reported.

Antisec said that “the personal details fields referring to people appears many times empty leaving the whole list incompleted on many parts,” adding that “no other file on the same folder makes mention about this list or its purpose.”

When such stories break out, it’s hard to determine what’s worse: the fact that the government really can do anything, or that the digital lives of 12 million people using iPhones are in the hands of one clumsy FBI agent using a Dell Vostro notebook.

Leaking a bunch of UDIDs isn’t exactly a tragedy. As the hacker group released 1 million of these records, they left out most of the personal information that could link these UDIDs to actual users out there, perhaps even you.

According to MacRumors, the release included Apple UDIDs, APNS (push notification) Tokens, Device Name, and Device Type.

Via: Hackers Leak 1 Million iPhone UDIDs into the Wild

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