Jul 4 2011
Hackers Hack Apple’s Servers

There was news related to the hackers sending out the usernames and passwords from Apple’s database. It was an anonymous hacker. The post was tweeted with the details via the AnonymousIRC Twitter account on Sunday.

The hackers have claimed that an Apple server’s security measures have been breached. The hackers have claimed that they that they have captured admin data from an Apple website. The website that was supposed or is supposed to be hacked was the one which provided surveys for their customers. Well, that same hacker group has been reporting a lot of other stories too.

The hacker group which came up witht his tweet also claimed that they did this by cracking the Apple website and that they got the login names and encrypted passwords of the ‘root’ and ‘admin’ user. Well, according to them the data which was hacked was in the ‘user-table’ of the MySQL database. No comment from Apple has been issued yet.

But it is not that a threat. The users of Apple and the people who visit that website do not have to worry. The group describes the case as not very serious. The news, New York Times also told that the website which was hacked as I have to above was mainly used for the user surveys. They also said that the hackers were not able to hack the customer’s data. That is the reason which for which the customers do not have to worry. Well, that’s all, the users and the customers do not have to worry.

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