The 16-Year-Old Boy Hacked the Apple Server, Stealing 90GB of Data

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The 16-year-old student from a private high school in Melbourne, Australia hacked Apple's server for more than a year and is facing charges after Apple reported to the FBI about the incident.

The Age reported that the Australian student from Melbourne had hacked Apple's server from his home, saying he was a fan of the Apple and thought he was doing a good thing.

During that time, he had downloaded 90GB of security data, including authentication keys to grant access to users who were heavily protected and had access to multiple user accounts.

Last year, he was discovered by the Australian police (AFP) after a house search, but everything was kept secret but now he is known to many people in the world hacker community.

'Two Apple laptops were confiscated, in which the serial number coincided with the serial number of the devices that were accessed on the system,' the inspector said.'Mobile phones and hard drives are also confiscated with IP addresses that match those who broke into the Apple system.'

The student said the motive was because 'dream' was made at Apple

When searching this schoolboy's home in Melbourne, Australian police discovered many files and hacking software that helped him break into many Apple servers many times, all stored in a normal folder Encrypted clown named 'hacky hack hack'.

He later shared it on WhatsApp but eventually Apple security team discovered him on their server and blocked it. The boy told police that he hacked Apple because he wanted to work at this technology giant.

At the time of writing, Apple did not say what important 90GB files it contained as well as the accounts of the users who were accessed. The 16-year-old is still waiting for the verdict to be released next month.

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