[ISN] Leaked Apple UDIDs were stolen from digital publishing firm

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231150/Leaked_Apple_UDIDs_were_stolen_from_digital_publishing_firm

By Lucian Constantin
IDG News Service
September 10, 2012

The unique identifiers of 1 million Apple iOS devices that hackers 
leaked last week were stolen from the servers of a Florida-based digital 
publishing firm called Bluetoad.

Bluetoad develops digital distribution technologies. Its products 
include custom iOS and Android apps that magazine and newspaper 
publishers use to distribute their titles to mobile users. The company 
claims that the hundreds of iPad and iPhone apps it developed for its 
customers are used to publish more than 2,000 titles in digital format 
every month.

"A little more than a week ago, BlueToad was the victim of a criminal 
cyber attack, which resulted in the theft of Apple UDIDs from our 
systems," Paul DeHart, CEO and president of Bluetoad, said Monday in a 
blog post. "Shortly thereafter, an unknown group posted these UDIDs on 
the Internet."

On Sept. 3, a group of hackers claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous 
and its Antisec hacking campaign released a file containing 1 million 
Apple unique device identifiers (UDIDs) together with their 
corresponding Apple Push Notification Service tokens and device names.

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