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Re: High school student hacked into 'unhackable' Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of 'secure files'

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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'
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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

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