AntiSec Hacking Group Releases 1M Apple Device IDs Taken From FBI Laptop

The hacking collective AntiSec has released more than a million iPhone ID numbers that it said it took from an FBI computer.

The group claims to have more than 12m Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs).

It said the IDs were listed alongside user names, device names, phone numbers, addresses and notification tokens.

The group said it suspects the FBI had the information to track iPhone users. It did not release all of the information it claims to have, but said there was enough for users to search for their own devices.

In a long statement published online, the group said "we decided we'd help out Internet security by auditing FBI first."

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."

The group also said it was releasing the file to make sure that people "pay attention" to the alleged surveillance by FBI officers.

- HUFFINGTON POST UK