A small mobile publishing company said today that it was the source of the large number of unique Apple device IDs that was leaked to the Internet last week.
BlueToad said in a statement that it was the "victim of a criminal cyber attack, which resulted in the theft of Apple UDIDs from our systems." A UDID is a unique device identifier, which Apple has strongly encouraged developers to move away from for privacy reasons.
The disclosure from BlueToad, which is based in Orlando, Fla., contradicts what a group of hackers loosely associated with Anonymous called AntiSec claimed when releasing their dump of 1 million UDIDs on September 3. AntiSec had said it obtained the UDIDs in March 2012 by breaching the security of a Dell notebook used by an FBI supervisor in New York.
The FBI denied the allegations the following day, saying: "At this time there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or ... [Read more]
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