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| Newsgroups | alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech |
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| From | Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> |
| Date | 2018-08-17 09:45 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' |
| References | <a1591f75191c935c0a481f0c8f920648@dizum.com> |
| Message-ID | <d7a7d130c0636ee56fdbe9f0ac335c92@dizum.com> (permalink) |
Cross-posted to 5 groups.
In article <a1591f75191c935c0a481f0c8f920648@dizum.com> Dick <richard@apple.com> wrote: > > An Australian high school student repeatedly hacked into Apple > servers, succeeding in downloading 90GB of what were described > as ‘secure files.’ The teenage boy also reportedly accessed > customer accounts … Niiice. > Two Apple laptops were seized and the serial numbers matched the > serial numbers of the devices which accessed the internal > systems. Niiice. Apple rats on users. > A mobile phone and hard drive were also seized and the IP > address … matched the intrusions into the organisation. > > Amusingly, the downloaded material was saved in a folder titled > ‘hacky hack hack.’ > > The teen has pleaded guilty, and will be sentenced next month. > The student’s lawyer said that the boy carried out the attacks > ‘because he was such a fan of the company’ and hoped to work > there – a prospect that now seems rather unlikely. Kevin Mitnick pulled it off, although his most famous hack job was mainly because some dumb-assed VMS system manager left default passwords on two privileged accounts and exposed the server to the Internet. Not much of a hack if you ask me. > Via MacRumors. Photo: WSJ. > > https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/16/melbourne-apple-hack/ > > Lesson #1, don't use Apple products if you're going to be > hacking. > Lesson #2, don't use Apple products. 1st trillion $ company, hacked by a kid. SMH.
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High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' Dick <richard@apple.com> - 2018-08-17 06:10 +0200
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-08-17 09:45 +0200
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' Nobody <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-08-17 07:25 -0500
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-08-17 16:19 -0400
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-17 17:31 -0400
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-08-18 09:08 -0400
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-18 10:28 -0400
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-08-18 10:48 -0400
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-08-19 12:36 +0200
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-08-19 11:15 +0200
Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files' John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2018-08-18 20:14 -0700
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