Last week I told you that a group of hackers managed to steal 12 million UDIDs of the iDevices, and together with them they took the phone numbers, addresses of the owners and other important data. The hackers said that the data was obtained from the laptop of an FBI special agent, however the agency denied this thing, Apple denied since he would have provided the information to the FBI and it seems that both entities were right. The source of the 12 million stolen UDIDs seems to be the BlueToad company, based in Florida, its CEO admitting 98% of the information published by hackers belongs to them.
Paul DeHart, CEO of the Blue Toad publishing company, told NBC News that technicians at his firm downloaded the data released by Anonymous and compared it to the company's own database. The analysis found a 98 percent correlation between the two datasets. "That's 100 percent confidence level, it's our data," DeHart said. "As soon as we found out we were involved and victimized, we approached the appropriate law enforcement officials, and we began to take steps to come forward, clear the record and take responsibility for this."
After the statements made by the CEO of BlueToad, those from Apple stated that the personal data of the users are not collected by the applications and were probably offered willingly by the users. Considering what was stated by BlueToad, the FBI and Apple came out "clean" from the whole problem, but there is always the possibility that these things will happen again.
"As an app developer, BlueToad would have access to a user's device information such as UDID, device name and type," Apple spokeswoman Trudy Mullter told NBC News on Monday. "Developers do not have access to users' account information, passwords or credit card information, unless a user specifically elects to provide that information to the developer."
