President Obama’s iPad Among The Million Apple IDs Leaked

By Zach Walton · September 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment


     
President Obama’s iPad Among The Million Apple IDs Leaked
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The big ticket news item this morning came from one of Anonymous’ biggest stunts in months. The group claimed to have gained access to 12 million unique device IDs that are used across all of Apple’s iOS products including the iPhone and iPad. Anonymous only leaked 1 million IDs, but one of them already has everybody talking.

After news of the dump broke out, everybody began crafting software that would allow people to check their ID against the leaked database. It was soon found that one ID belonged to that of President Obama. The iPad in question has its device name set to “hobamain.” As Mashable points out, the device name is a mash up of “Obama”, “Main” and the first letter of Obama’s middle name.

Of course, it’s just as likely that this isn’t Obama’s iPad. There could be any number of people out there who would use that specific character set for their device’s name. It’s highly unlikely though which leads to the current speculation. Is this a national security risk? Not likely. I doubt that President carries any sensitive data on his iPad anyway.

The same program that found out Obama’s Apple ID also has some other interesting statistics. Over 42,000 iPhone owners were too lazy to change their device ID to something other than “iPhone.” Interestingly enough, a lot of people named John must buy iPads as “John’s iPad” is the device ID for over 1,000 iPads.

Anonymous claims to still have over 11 million IDs and they very well could release more. We’ll continue to follow the story as it develops. If anything, it should finally convince Apple to do away with its unique device ID system.

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Hackers claim 12-million Apple ID’s found on FBI computer
Posted: Sep 04, 2012 7:51 AM EST Updated: Sep 04, 2012 7:58 AM EST

The hacking group Anti-sec claims it has found more than twelve-million Apple Unique Device Identifiers on an FBI agent's computer.

The group on Tuesday posted one million of the UDID's on a message board with details as to how they obtained them.

"During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached," claims the group.

The group said they found a file called "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" which contained a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices. The .csv file contained Unique Device Identifiers, user names, names of devices, types of devices zip codes, cell phone numbers and address, according to the group.

Some tech websites claimed that President Barack Obama's iPad 2 information was among that obtained by AntiSec.

Mashable.com reported that UDID's are sequences of 40 numbers and letters that are specific to an Apple device. The website said that the codes aren't very revealing and that some of the info obtained by Anti-sec can be obtained by most iOS developers.

Mashable also reported that Apple users' real names, cell phone numbers and addresses were not leaked by the group.

Anti-sec said of the leaked data, "We have learnt it seems quite clear nobody pays attention if you just come out and say, ‘Hey, (the) FBI is using your device details and info.'" And that, "(The) FBI will, as usual, deny or ignore this uncomfortable thingie and everybody will forget the whole thing at amazing speed."

To see if your device's UDID has been leaked, click here.

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