1M Apple IDs hacked

[avi]

First to check whether your device is in the list of hacked devices :

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/04/heres-check-apple-device-udid-compromised-antisec-leak/

The hackers issued a statement with the following description on how the data was obtained:

"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."

Read more : http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09...ple-device-ids-allegedly-obtained-fbi-breach/

And here : http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409239,00.asp

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyol...o-grab-12-million-apple-ids-anonymous-claims/

 

[whatsinaname]

Someone please change the thread title. Apple IDs are not hacked.

The UDIDs of Apple devices (which is accessible to all apps) have been leaked. The UDID is just a hash of a phone's mac addresses and IMEI number.

What the UDID can do is uniquely identify a device. I don't know why the FBI have a list. It could have either come from Apple or one of the hundreds of thousands of app developers.

Edit: Also, don't use any online search look up to check for your UDID. Download the whole list and search on your computer. Who knows how many of these look up tools are collecting all the searches.