Apple denies that personal data has been compromised by the hacking of an Australian teenager

In a statement issued by Apple and published by The Guardian newspaper, the Cupertino company has confirmed that the personal data of users has not been compromised by a 16-year-old student from Melbourne, Australia, who has admitted to hacking the Apple internal servers multiple times over a year.

Secure personal data, or so Apple claims

The press release in question reads as follows:

“At Apple, we carefully protect our networks and have dedicated teams of information security professionals who work to detect and respond to threats.

In this case, our teams discovered unauthorized access, contained it, and reported the incident to the police. We consider the security of our users' data to be one of our greatest responsibilities and we want to assure our clients that at no time during this incident was their personal data compromised. ”

The Australian publication The Age reported that the teenager downloaded about 90 GB of confidential files, and accessed customer accounts, storing information in a folder on his computer called "hack hack hacky". What is not yet clear is what kind of information he specifically downloaded during his series of forays into Apple's servers.

The student's identity remains anonymous, and he cannot be publicly cited due to his minority age and also, the media says, due to his notoriety in the hacker community, despite which he is known to have pleaded guilty before an Australian juvenile court last week. The sentence will be made public next month but, meanwhile, his lawyer would have assured the police that the boy "dreamed" of working for Apple.

According to reports, the teenager had a method of accessing Apple's servers that "worked perfectly, " until he was caught by the Australian Federal Police last year when, under a court order, officers accessed his address where they seized the equipment in which it stored all the stolen information.