SYDNEY: A schoolboy who "dreamed" of operating for Apple hacked the firm's pc techniques, Australian media has reported, although the tech massive mentioned on Friday no buyer knowledge was compromised.
The Children's Court of Victoria was instructed the teenager broke into Apple's mainframe -- a large, tough knowledge processing device -- from his home in the suburbs of Melbourne and downloaded 90GB of protected recordsdata, The Age reported late the previous day.
The boy, then aged 16, accessed the device multiple times over a 12 months as he was a fan of Apple and had "dreamed of" operating for the United States firm, the newspaper mentioned, mentioning his lawyer.
Apple mentioned in a commentary as of late that its groups "discovered the unauthorised access, contained it, and reported the incident to law enforcement".
The firm, which earlier this month become the primary private-sector company to surpass $1 trillion in market worth, mentioned it sought after "to assure our customers that at no point during this incident was their personal data compromised".
An global investigation was launched after the invention involving the FBI and the Australian Federal Police, The Age reported.
The federal police mentioned it would not comment on the case as it is nonetheless ahead of the courtroom.
The Age mentioned police raided the boy's home final 12 months and located hacking recordsdata and instructions stored in a folder referred to as "hacky hack hack".
"Two Apple laptops were seized and the serial numbers matched the serial numbers of the devices which accessed the internal systems," a prosecutor was reported as announcing.
A mobile phone and hard drive have been additionally seized whose IP deal with matched those detected in the breaches, he added.
The youngster has pleaded responsible and the case is because of go back to courtroom for his sentencing next month.
The Children's Court of Victoria was instructed the teenager broke into Apple's mainframe -- a large, tough knowledge processing device -- from his home in the suburbs of Melbourne and downloaded 90GB of protected recordsdata, The Age reported late the previous day.
The boy, then aged 16, accessed the device multiple times over a 12 months as he was a fan of Apple and had "dreamed of" operating for the United States firm, the newspaper mentioned, mentioning his lawyer.
Apple mentioned in a commentary as of late that its groups "discovered the unauthorised access, contained it, and reported the incident to law enforcement".
The firm, which earlier this month become the primary private-sector company to surpass $1 trillion in market worth, mentioned it sought after "to assure our customers that at no point during this incident was their personal data compromised".
An global investigation was launched after the invention involving the FBI and the Australian Federal Police, The Age reported.
The federal police mentioned it would not comment on the case as it is nonetheless ahead of the courtroom.
The Age mentioned police raided the boy's home final 12 months and located hacking recordsdata and instructions stored in a folder referred to as "hacky hack hack".
"Two Apple laptops were seized and the serial numbers matched the serial numbers of the devices which accessed the internal systems," a prosecutor was reported as announcing.
A mobile phone and hard drive have been additionally seized whose IP deal with matched those detected in the breaches, he added.
The youngster has pleaded responsible and the case is because of go back to courtroom for his sentencing next month.
Australian teen breaches Apple's secure network
![Australian teen breaches Apple's secure network]()
Reviewed by Kailash
on
August 18, 2018
Rating:
