Anonymous hacker group hits Apple, publishes data
SAN FRANCISCO | Mon Jul 4, 2011 1:08pm EDT
(Reuters) - The Internet vigilante hacker group Anonymous claimed to have broken into an Apple Inc server and published a small number of usernames and passwords for one of the U.S. technology company's websites.
Anonymous said on Sunday via its account on microblogging site Twitter that Apple could be a target for hackers and released the data as part of its Anti Security, or "AntiSec," campaign.
"Not being so serious, but well ... Apple could be target, too. But don't worry, we are busy elsewhere," Anonymous said on its Twitter feed, where it shared a link to the data posted on text-sharing website Pastebin.
Anonymous said the data included 27 usernames and passwords for the www.abs.apple.com website.
The website, used by Apple for online surveys, on Monday displayed an error message that said the server was temporarily offline.
A spokesman for Apple declined to comment.
Anonymous teamed up with the Lulz Security group of hackers late in June. LulzSec, which gained wide recognition for breaching the websites of Sony Corp, the Central Intelligence Agency and a British police unit among other targets, said it had accomplished its mission to disrupt corporate and government bodies for entertainment.
Security experts who have researched LulzSec's origins say it emerged from Anonymous, which became famous for attacking companies and institutions that the group considered opponents of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
Anonymous earlier this month released scores of private e-mails and other data from an Arizona police website. LulzSec first released dozens of internal documents from the same Arizona police website in June.
(Reporting by Marius Bosch in Johannesburg and Poornima Gupta in San Francisco; Editing by Gary Crosse)
ハッカー集団「アノニマス」が米アップルにサイバー攻撃、ユーザー名など公表
2011年 07月 5日 04:56 JST
[サンフランシスコ 4日 ロイター] 国際的ハッカー集団として知られる「アノニマス」は3日、ツイッターで、米アップル (AAPL.O: 株価, 企業情報, レポート) のサーバーに侵入したことを明らかにし、同社のオンライン調査サイト(www.abs.apple.com)から盗んだとする27のユーザーネーム及びパスワードを公表した。
アノニマスはツイッターで、アップルがハッカーの標的となる可能性があるとしたうえで、同集団の「アンティ・セキュリティ」と称される作戦の一環として、盗んだとする情報を公表した。
アップルの広報担当はコメントを差し控えている。
posted at 09:14:52 on 07/05/11
by suga -
Category: Apple & Macintosh