Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Sep 2012 09:00 UTC
This could be big - although just how big remains unclear. "There you have. 1,000,001 Apple Devices UDIDs linking to their users and their APNS tokens. The original file contained around 12,000,000 devices. We decided a million would be enough to release. We trimmed out other personal data as, full names, cell numbers, addresses, zipcodes, etc." How did AntiSec get this data (they claim)? From an FBI laptop. Why an FBI laptop would have a file with personal information on 12 million iOS users, we don't know - especially since 10000 of them are Dutch/Belgian, and last I checked, those do not fall under FBI jurisdiction. Did the FBI obtain it from an application developer, or from Apple itself? Then again - 12 million users? From a single iOS developer? I find that hard to believe.
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RE[3]: There are devs with that many devices...
by MOS6510 on Tue 4th Sep 2012 12:47
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Chances are pretty high that there are FBI agents out there ignoring security protocol and chances are pretty high some become victim of an non-patched system.
But I estimate chances rather low of having (1 FBI laptop, (2 non-patched system, (3 getting hacked, (4 a file containing 12 million UDIDs, (5 finding it, (6 downloading it.
Then again stranger things have happened, so I don't rule it out.
RE[4]: There are devs with that many devices...
by Radio on Tue 4th Sep 2012 13:01
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There is a huge half-patched Java exploit running around:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/09/04/beware-fake-mi...
and the FBI agent who has been hacked is not a nobody, he appeared in a FBI video ad calling for hackers to join the Bureau:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/09/04/fbi-agents-laptop...
That reduces the "improbability" of point 1), 2) and 3) of your analysis. As for 4), 5) and 6), if this agent had this data on his personal computer, it should have been all too easy.
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The way I understand it, FBI agents in the field are required to use a DoD-provided Linux-based liveCD whenever they connect to the public Internet. It allows for a secure VPN tunnel back to government datacenters. Even my lowly terminal at work goes through two separate encrypted VPNs and it's just a county law enforcement terminal.
As to whether they actually do it in practice, who knows? Some of my coworkers completely ignore their Security and Integrity training and use their mobile data terminals to look up license plate info on cute women. Those sorts of shenanigans go all the way to the top of the ladder too.