Bangalore: The hackers group, Antisec, has reportedly hacked 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers or UDIDs.
The group has revealed that they got hold of these IDs from a laptop that an FBI agent used. These UDIDs are the 40-character long unique identifiers that are used by the developers for testing their apps.
As posted on the website Pastebin, the hacker group has stated that it accessed over 12 million UDIDs while hacking the laptop of the FBI agent. The details include usernames, device names, notification tokens, cell phone numbers and addresses. But Antisec decided only to release the Apple device UDIDs, Apple Push Notification Service Dev Token, Device Name and Device Type.
The group has posted: "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, zip codes, etc. Not all devices have the same amount of personal data linked. Some devices contained lot of info. Others no more than zip codes or almost anything. We left those main columns we consider enough to help a significant amount of users to look if their devices are listed there or not. The DevTokens are included for those mobile hackers who could figure out some use from the dataset."
The FBI is facing a lot of criticism because of this incident as the questions such as how FBI got access to those 12 million UDIDs arise.