Thursday, 27 September 2018

The teen who hacked a terabyte of Apple data to get hired, gets probation

Remember the story about the Australian teenager who hacked what was initially thought to be 90GB of data from Apple's servers? They were found by the authorities on his laptop, under the folder with the name "‘Hacky Hack Hack Methods Exclude". 

His lawyer argued at the time that while downloading account information and other data from Apple was done intentionally, it was not with bad intentions, as the teen loved Apple products and wanted to work for the company one day. After spending a while in Apple's intranet via hacked access codes, it just became addictive ...

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