Hacker Dumps iOS Cracking Tools Allegedly Stolen from Cellebrite – Motherboard (Feb 2, 2017)

Given that Apple argued precisely that security backdoors almost always make their way into the hands of evildoers, this news is great validation of Apple’s refusal to cooperate with the FBI early last year, even if it’s a private firm rather than the government that’s been hacked in this case. Indeed, that seems to have been the hacker’s motivation in this case. It’s also worrying from an Apple perspective that a provider like Cellebrite should have had such lax security that a hacker could breach its systems and access these tools, assuming the claims being made here are in fact legitimate.

via Motherboard

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