Tuesday 11 September 2012

Leaked Apple device IDs traced to app developer, not FBI

Apple Device IDs

Those Apple device IDs that an Anonymous offshoot claimed to have hacked from an FBI agent's computer in March appear to have actually originated just weeks ago from the hack of a little-known app development company in Florida.


Thanks to some stellar sleuthing by a computer security consultant, the source of the Apple device IDs leaked to the internet by AntiSec last week has been traced to an application developer called Blue Toad.


By: Kim Zetter, Edited by: David Cornish


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/11/leaked-apple-device-ids-traced

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