Yet the hacking group claims to be sitting on 3TB of data that says otherwise

Sep 5, 2012 08:18 GMT  ·  By

The FBI has released a statement to the press saying it is “aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromised and private data regarding Apple UDIDs was exposed.” They’re denying any involvement in such events.

“At this time there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data,” the Bureau told All Things D.

The FBI Press Office also sent out a tweet refuting earlier claims that an FBI laptop had been hacked by AntiSec, resulting in the leak of a dozen million iOS UDIDs (unique device identifiers).

The tweet read, “Statement soon on reports that one of our laptops with personal info was hacked. We never had info in question. Bottom Line: TOTALLY FALSE.”

In other words, AntiSec, the hacking group which allegedly obtained the UDIDs from the FBI leaking 1 million of them into the wild, got their UDIDs somewhere else. If so, then where from?

A tweet from AnonymousIRC later said, “People whose UDID was on the list released by AntiSec might want to compare their installed apps. A common culprit might be found.”

The hackers then followed up with another tweet, “Also, before you deny too much: Remember we’re sitting on 3TB additional data. We have not even started.”

The hacking group had earlier said that they would grant no more interviews “till Adrian Chen get featured in the front page of Gawker, a whole day, with a huge picture of him dressing a ballet tutu and shoe on the head.”

The publication actually complied, hoping to squeeze out more details coming from AntiSec.

The group finally suggests it knows more about the situation than even the FBI does: “The fact that the FBI has no ‘evidence’ of a data breach on one of their notebooks, does not allow the conclusion that it never happened,” said AntiSec.