As if Apple doesn’t have enough issues, comes the news that they have been hacked by Anonymous which includes members from the supposedly defunct group known as LulzSec:
Anonymous and LulzSec, two amorphous groups of computer hackers, released on Monday a short list of usernames and passwords allegedly stolen from one of Apple Inc. servers. The groups appear to have obtained the data from another hacker, who did not intend to release the information publicly. Although Apple has neither commented on nor confirmed the breach, the data appears to be of little strategic value as it doesn’t directly relate to customer information such as credit card numbers.
But the damage is in not what they got, but the fact that they got in at all. If the server in question was running OS X Server, then that is a big issue as security is one of the things that they claim to have in their favor… Though I’ve debunked that previously. Now Apple doesn’t seem to have been the only victim here. Fox News had their Twitter account hacked. I personally won’t be losing sleep over that as it’s Fox News we’re talking about here, not a real news agency. But I digress.
The more these hacks take place, the more likely that law enforcement is going to seriously go after these guys. Or at least, one would hope that were the case.
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Apple Hacked By Anonymous (And LulzSec)
As if Apple doesn’t have enough issues, comes the news that they have been hacked by Anonymous which includes members from the supposedly defunct group known as LulzSec:
Anonymous and LulzSec, two amorphous groups of computer hackers, released on Monday a short list of usernames and passwords allegedly stolen from one of Apple Inc. servers. The groups appear to have obtained the data from another hacker, who did not intend to release the information publicly. Although Apple has neither commented on nor confirmed the breach, the data appears to be of little strategic value as it doesn’t directly relate to customer information such as credit card numbers.
But the damage is in not what they got, but the fact that they got in at all. If the server in question was running OS X Server, then that is a big issue as security is one of the things that they claim to have in their favor… Though I’ve debunked that previously. Now Apple doesn’t seem to have been the only victim here. Fox News had their Twitter account hacked. I personally won’t be losing sleep over that as it’s Fox News we’re talking about here, not a real news agency. But I digress.
The more these hacks take place, the more likely that law enforcement is going to seriously go after these guys. Or at least, one would hope that were the case.
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