Apple's network hacked by a Melbourne school boy
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE According to a report, a Melbourne private schoolboy has repeatedly broken into Apple’s secure computer systems from his suburban home on multiple occasions for over a year because he was a fan of the company. The Children’s Court has heard that he had downloaded 90gb of secure files and also accessed customer accounts. From the age of 16 he developed computerised tunnels and online bypassing systems to hide his identity until a raid on his family home uncovered a litany of hacking files and instructions all saved in a folder titled “hacky hack hack”. Two Apple laptops were seized and the serial numbers matched the serial numbers of the devices which accessed the internal systems of the company. The major international investigation was sparked when Apple contacted the FBI, who passed the allegations on to the AFP. The AFP found the software that had enabled the hacking had been installed on the teen’s laptop. Further analysis f