STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 4 September 2012

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26. AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI breach

9/4/12 AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI breach

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.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/04/antisec-hackers-leak-1000001-apple-device-ids-allegedly-obtained-fbi-breach/

9/4/12 From Karl Denninger

The hacker group that got the file released at least part of it.

Now here's my question -- How did the FBI obtain the file?

That's what you ought to be wondering. More to the point: Is Apple providing the FBI with every customer's registration and sale details? And if they're not -- who is?

Let's be real here folks -- 12 million UDIDs is a hell of lot of them. Are you willing to believe that there was no "official transfer" from "somewhere" to the FBI of that data?

I'm not and you shouldn't be either.

http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=211056




And, if the FBI already has 12 million UDID from Apple, wouldn't it also have UDID from other manufacturers?