FBI responds to Anonymous’ alleged bounty of 12M UDIDs

VentureBeat writes, The Federal Bureau of Investigations says Anonymous is lying about retrieving 12 million UDIDs, or the unique identifiers associated with Apple mobile devices, from an agency laptop. This morning hacking collective Anonymous released one million UDIDs along with usernames, addresses, phone numbers, and other pieces of personal information. It reportedly did this by exploiting a vulnerability in Oracle’s Java, which has been having problems of its own lately, to access a computer allegedly owned by an FBI agent. But the federal agency does not agree. “The FBI is aware of published...

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