Apple has responded to the claims by hacker collective Anonymous that it stole a database of over 12 million Apple customers' personal details, saying that if the FBI did indeed have that information, it was not obtained from the company.
Anonymous claims to have exploited a Java vulnerability to obtain the data from an FBI cyber security agent's laptop. The hackers posted over a million of the unique device identifiers (UDIDs) for Apple devices on Pastebin. They added a message saying it was just a small portion of the 3TB of data they had stolen - which they said included personally identifiable information, such as full names, cellphone numbers and addresses belonging to Apple customers.
Apple told AllThingsD: “The FBI has not requested this information from Apple, nor have we provided it to the FBI or any organisation. Additionally, with iOS 6 we introduced a new set of APIs meant to replace the use of the UDID and will soon be banning the use of UDID.”
Anonymous has been enjoying the renewed attention on Twitter, and has been posting responses to both the FBI and Apple's claims. One of the more recent tweets says: “Apple: We Didn't Give FBI Any Device IDs. But who did? That's the 10000001$ question” (sic).
The same Twitter handle stated in an older tweet: “People whose UDID was on the list released by AntiSec might want to compare their installed apps. A common culprit might be found.”
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