After high profile hacks against some of the world's top companies it would seem that the current trend of hacking is continuing as Apple and Fox News boor the brunt of more hacks today.
According to twitter account AnonymousIRC, which represents members of both LulzSec and Anonymous have claimed that they have hacked Apple.
Apparently the hack focused on exposing personal data from a survey of 27 administrative usernames and passwords according to the Wall Street Journal. The hack will not effect any customers - so Apple customers can rest easy at this time. As the attack appears to be aimed at Apples internal business intelligence server and not the personal or financial business of its millions of customers.
The tweet contained the hashtag #antisec referring to the Anti Security movement - a group opposed to the computer security industry which encourages supporters to hack into, obtain and make known classified government information from online sources while leaving the term aforementioned hashtag as a "calling card".
Elsewhere today the right-wing News channel Fox News had their Twitter hacked as were seen to be posting about the death of US president Barack Obama.
The right-wing news site apears to have been posting messages to its twitter account that read: “@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July indeed. President Obama is dead. We wish @joebiden the best of luck as our new President of the United States. In such a time of madness, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.”
Thankfully, the messages were false. Rather than coming from the Newsdesk the story instead originated from an attacker who took over the company’s Twitter feed.
Quite when all this hacking is going to stop remains unclear. But it’s becoming a daily issue for many companies. And if they incur expenses due to the incidents it will be consumers that will pay the price over time.
One thought on “Apple And Fox News Hacked Over The Weekend”
Hmm, investigative journalism or blindly copying news from elsewhere and assuming they are the facts. In this case, I’ll go for the 2nd.
Here is EVERYTHING that Anonymous got from the website.
SITE: http://abs.apple.com:8080/ssurvey/survey?id=
db: mysql table: users
[27 entries]
+—————+
| User |
+—————+
| admin |
| backup |
| bnewcomb |
| bulkmail |
| leung |
| masuo |
| myapp |
| process_super |
| rlinton |
| sharp |
| survey |
| web_csat |
| spbidb05 |
| status_check |
| survey_slave |
| NULL |
| root |
| NULL |
| admin |
| backup |
| backup_user |
| bnewcomb |
| bulkmail |
| masuo |
| myapp |
| root |
| survey |
+—————+
+——————————————-+
| Password |
+——————————————-+
| *7AB8AAB1CB14C7997CE400CEA87B443A15FE72E6 |
| NULL |
| NULL |
| NULL |
| *5DDF97914AE903CD933CFA428E6582A214E66339 |
| *5DDF97914AE903CD933CFA428E6582A214E66339 |
| *2447D497B9A6A15F2776055CB2D1E9F86758182F |
| *2447D497B9A6A15F2776055CB2D1E9F86758182F |
| *2447D497B9A6A15F2776055CB2D1E9F86758182F |
| *2447D497B9A6A15F2776055CB2D1E9F86758182F |
| *758A94318E1CCA45D996610F8A97E6BAA48C02FE |
| *758A94318E1CCA45D996610F8A97E6BAA48C02FE |
| 2bbe9f0c59e89c66 |
| *97757F6F08362A7CBA6F30E72EB90A73C79168EE |
| *5B3643923A375B56250D11532289B2675C69AE62 |
| *45930B494440B7335C3F98DB0FD14441166B57BB |
| *FF642075DCA52A257F8DB745546F1E643D0B07DA |
| *FF642075DCA52A257F8DB745546F1E643D0B07DA |
| *35D14C41D95FA9DC79DF22641B7F9F98ECFDA55B |
| *BAFD507E802E9B17D99E22A1360CECD386149822 |
| *7AB8AAB1CB14C7997CE400CEA87B443A15FE72E6 |
| *7AB8AAB1CB14C7997CE400CEA87B443A15FE72E6 |
| *5B202DF112417035DF7A62DDC250A9ADB0F22BDD |
| *8C69224DCDC9A8FB2122952DF5B57A4AB7FE456A |
| *AEEE48760B9DCE2800776CE1FF6915FE91D8C894 |
| *406E480B04BF741F3FB65E0C8976FC856BDBF418 |
| *3D845C052A1D31F3D8D3E864735E84DF3E07C9D0 |
+——————————————-+
It’s standard coding to pull up this sort of info from a database, in fact, that’s really what databases are for. Do they look like passwords to you?
No, they are encrypted. Millions of processor hours would be required to break 1 of these.