16-yr-old teen pleads guilty to hacking into Apple’s network, downloading internal files

A 16-year-old Australian teenager has pleaded guilty to hacking into Apple’s network and downloading internal files of the luxury gadget making company.

According to reports, the teenager whose name has not been made public for legal reasons accessed 90 gigabytes worth of files, breaking into the system many times over the course of a year.

Reports by The Age newspaper reveals that the teenager stored the documents in a folder called ‘hacky hack hack’.

However, Apple insists that no customer data was compromised but The Age reports that the boy had accessed customer accounts.

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In a statement to the BBC, Apple said: “We vigilantly protect our networks and have dedicated teams of information security professionals that work to detect and respond to threats.

“In this case, our teams discovered the unauthorised access, contained it, and reported the incident to law enforcement.

“We regard the data security of our users as one of our greatest responsibilities and want to assure our customers that at no point during this incident was their personal data compromised.”

The teenager who broke into Apple’s network from his suburban home in Melbourne is due to be sentenced for his crime on 20 September.

 

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