Australian teenager hacks Apple, perhaps putting his dream of working for the tech giant at risk
It was reported that the boy broke into Apple’s mainframe from his home in Melbourne and downloaded 90GB of secure files
Sydney — A schoolboy who "dreamt" of working for Apple hacked the firm’s computer systems, Australian media has reported, although the tech giant said on Friday that no customer data was compromised. The Children’s Court of Victoria was told the teenager broke into Apple’s mainframe — a large, powerful data-processing system — from his home in the suburbs of Melbourne and downloaded 90GB of secure files, The Age reported late on Thursday. The boy, then aged 16 years, accessed the system multiple times over a year as he was a fan of Apple and had "dreamt of" working for the US firm, the newspaper said, citing his lawyer. Apple said in a statement on Friday that its teams "discovered the unauthorised access, contained it and reported the incident to law enforcement". The firm, which became the first private-sector company to surpass $1-trillion in market value earlier in August, said it wanted "to assure our customers that at no point during this incident was their personal data compr...
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