A 16-year-old Melbourne student has been hacking into Apple servers for more than a year and is now facing criminal charges from the FBI over the hack.
The Age reports today that a 16-year-old Melbourne student repeatedly hacked into Apple servers from his home because he considers himself the company's biggest fan and thought he was doing good.
During his sessions, the teenager managed to download around 90GB of files to his computer, which included secure access keys to user accounts.
The teenager was arrested last year by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) after a raid on his home, but the incident was kept secret. Today, the teenager is well-known in the international hacking community.
During a raid on the teenager’s Melbourne home, Australian Federal Police discovered a series of hacking tools that allowed them to breach Apple’s servers, all stored in an unencrypted folder named “hacky hack hack.”
The teenager shared some of the files he obtained from Apple’s servers via WhatsApp, but in the end, the company’s security team detected his presence and stopped him. The teenager told police that he hacked Apple because he “dreamed” of working for the company.
Apple has not yet released any information about the contents of the 90GB of leaked data.
Apple: 16-year-old on the company's servers for a year!
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