Hackers Release Alleged Evidence Showing FBI Tracking U.S. Citizens
AntiSec, a faction of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, has released one million identity numbers for Apple devices, claiming they were taken in a hack of the FBI and represent evidence that the bureau is spying on citizens.
International Business Times reports AntiSec stating in its release of these Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) that the database includes information like zip codes, cellphone numbers and addresses. AntiSec only released the UDIDs, not this more personal information associated with the identifier.
AntiSec also threatens having information for 11 million more UDIDs. It states that it only released one million of these as it felt that would “be enough” to get users’ attention.
Hacker News describes how the information was allegedly retrieved:
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
