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Hackers score 12 million Apple device ids, dump 1 million online

Hackers associated with the well-known hacktivist group, Anonymous have dumped one million Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs)

September 04, 2012 / 18:00 IST

Hackers associated with the well-known hacktivist group, Anonymous have dumped online one million Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) belonging to Apple devices. In the Pastebin dump, where the hackers from AntiSec dumped the UDIDs, they reveal that the original file carried information from around 12,000,000 devices, but they found a million of them to be enough to leak online. "We trimmed out other personal data as, full names, cell numbers, addresses, zipcodes, etc. not all devices have the same amount of personal data linked. some devices contained lot of info. others no more than zipcodes or almost anything. we left those main columns we consider enough to help a significant amount of users to look if their devices are listed there or not. the DevTokens are included for those mobile hackers who could figure out some use from the dataset".

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first published: Sep 4, 2012 05:53 pm

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