Yet another thread to make us feel like our personal information is at risk. A small group of hackers called AntiSec, a subset of the group Anonymous, claim to have hacked into an FBI's computer and stolen numbers for Ipod, Iphone, and Ipads of 12 million users. This also includes personal information such as phone numbers for Iphones and other personal data. They released the files on Sunday to prove that they've done the hacking, but the FBI have found no evidence.
The group claims to have done it and given up some of the information to prove that the FBI uses device information to track people
Sound familiar? While the information looks real enough, the security experts say says that more personal information, such as names, email addresses, and date of births, would have to be given to prove that it is real, so it poses no real risk.
The FBI have been frequent targets of these hackivists, but the number of attempt from them have dwindled since several members of another subgroup Lulzsec have been arrested in March.
Here's the link.There's the link for those who want more information. For those of you who don't believe, security experts say that the numbers appear real and one of them matches an Ipad that belongs to a New York Times employee. The numbers obtained are called AUDIDs and are a jumble of digits to prevent marketers to track their costumers when moving from app to app. The information given isn't harmful unless given with some other information. The information given from the group are the AUDID numbers, what they named the Ipad, and the email if they tied the device to their email address, such as using the email address when naming your Ipad.
