Attack kicks off the next round of "AntiSec" campaign
Tuesday, 5 Jul 2011 - 9:42 EDT
Source: http://www.csmonitor.com
Hackers: Apple attack exposes usernames,
passwords
Hackers' Apple attack reportedly breaks into a company
server to steal usernames and passwords. A group called Anonymous
says the hackers' Apple attack kicks off the next round of its
"AntiSec" campaign.
By Reuters
/ July 5, 2011
The Internet vigilante hacker group Anonymous claimed to have
broken into an Apple 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.
