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Over a million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) have been posted online after hackers claimed to have obtained them from an FBI breach. In a lengthy statement, the AntiSec hacking group said it had 1,000,001 Apple Devices UDIDs linking to their users and their push notification service tokens. It said: “The original file contained around 12,000,000 devices. We decided a million would be enough to release. We trimmed out other personal data [such] as, full names, cell numbers, addresses, zipcodes, etc. Not all devices have the same amount of personal data linked. “Some devices contained lot of info. Others [had] no more than zipcodes 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.” It then went on to say that it ‘never liked the concept of UDIDs since the beginning' and said it was a ‘really bad decision from Apple'. As for why it was exposing this personal data, the profanity-ridden release said that it had issue with the FBI ‘using your device info for a tracking people project' and wanted people to be aware of the FBI using people's device details and information. It said: “Looking at the massive number of devices concerned, someone should care about it. Also we think it's the right moment to release this knowing that Apple is looking for alternatives for those UDID currently and since a while blocked axx to it, but well, in this case it's too late for those concerned owners on the list. We always thought it was a really bad idea. That hardware coded IDs for devices concept should be erradicated from any device on the market in the future.” It said that it came by the data after a Dell Vostro notebook, used by an FBI supervisor special agent was breached using the ‘Atomic Reference Array' vulnerability in Java. The statement said that during the shell session, some files were downloaded from the users's desktop folder and one had the name ‘NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv' which was a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices that included UDIDs and personal details. Original post Link download