By A schoolboy who aimed to work for Apple, hacked computer systems of the company. The tech giant described the facts on Friday that no customer data was compromised by the action performed by the boy. The Children’s Court of Victoria was stated that the teenager violated into mainframe of Apple which is an enormous, dominant data processing system. The boy attempted this activity from his home in the suburbs of Melbourne location and downloaded 90GB of saved files.
The 16 years boy then acquired the access of the system numerous times since a year as he was a great fan of Apple Company and had aimed of joining the company to work with, according to his lawyer. Apple stated in an announcement on Friday that its teams exposed the unauthorized access, included it, and conveyed the occurrence to law enforcement agency.
The company, which formerly current month became the major private-sector firm to exceed the market value about US $1 trillion, and it wanted to make sure the customers that at no point throughout this happening was their personal data suffered. An international inquiry was inaugurated after the detection concerning the FBI and the Australian Federal Police.
The federal police stated that it could not remark anything on this case as it remains still before the court. Further the police raided the house of the boy previous year and got hacked files and complete instructions saved in his computer with a folder named “hacky hack hack”.
“Two Apple laptops were seized and the serial numbers matched the serial numbers of the devices which accessed the internal systems,” a prosecutor was reported as saying.
Moreover, they also seized a mobile phone and hard drive whose IP address matched those identified in the violation attempt. The boy has found guilty and the case is due to arrival to court for his punishing the coming month.
