Apple states its consumers’ information wasn’t jeopardized by an Australian teenager’s supposed hacking.
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An Australian teenager has actually pleaded guilty to hacking into Apple’s protected network, however Apple states no consumer information was jeopardized.
The young boy accessed Apple’s mainframe from his rural Melbourne house a number of times over a year due to the fact that he was a fan of the United States business and imagined working there, The Age reports, mentioning his legal representative.
During these invasions, he downloaded 90 GB of protected files– which he kept in a folder with the title “hacky hack hack”– and accessed consumer accounts, the Children’s Court heard on Thursday.
When Apple saw the hack, it obstructed the source and got in touch with the FBI, who reported it to the Australian Federal Police, according to The Age.
They robbed the young boy’s house and seized 2 Apple laptop computers, a cellphone and a hard disk. The laptop computers’ identification numbers matched those utilized to access the system, a district attorney kept in mind.
The teenager pleaded guilty and will go back to court next month for sentencing, our sibling website ZDNet reports.
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Apple acknowledged the incident in statements to Reuters and The Guardian, reassuring customers that “at no point during this incident was their personal data compromised.”
In June, Apple updated the iPhone’s software to close a security hole that allowed access to customers’ data.
