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A hacker group took to Twitter to boast of its hacking of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) — but the news is, to say the least, questionable.
The hacker group, 1775 Sec, spent a good portion of Tuesday bragging that it had breached Apple’s databases and posted, what it called, 'proof' of the hack.
More proof of Apple's Database breach pic.twitter.com/QmKLoDzRUv
— 1775Sec Suspended (@1775Sec) January 14, 2014
In another tweet, the group said that it had help. It thanked the European Cyber Army for its help.
Shout out to the "European Cyber Army" @ECA_Legion for their assistance in Breaching Apple's Database! Thanks Brothers!
— 1775Sec Suspended (@1775Sec) January 14, 2014
Finally, in a tweet around 10:00 p.m. ET, the group said it was going dark.
Note(s): As of right now the "1775 Sec" and all Operations are being Suspended until Further Notice. Sail Strong, Brothers!
— 1775Sec Suspended (@1775Sec) January 15, 2014
But there are plenty of holes in the group’s claims despite its defense of the validity of the data on Twitter.
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According to AppleInsider, it verified that some of the user data was real but much of it appeared to be outdated. Many of the phone numbers were out of service, according to its research.
Others say that the database doesn’t come from Apple—that it’s from another company.
This same group recently claimed responsibility for bringing down Dropbox’s servers, but later recanted and said that it was a denial of service attack, which does not include any entry to the company’s servers.
Dropbox still maintains that the downtime it experienced was a result of system maintenance.
The last time a confirmed attack on Apple’s servers took place was July of last year when it’s developer portal was compromised prompting the company to take down the service for eight days while it rebuilt the system. No sensitive information was compromised in that attack.
Cybercrime has been a front-page story recently. Target now says that its data breach involved more than 70 million customer and Neiman Marcus disclosed that its servers were hacked as well.
Apple hasn’t commented on the claim.
Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Tim Parker was long Apple.
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