iPad manufacturer Foxconn gets hacked

Much of the talk about Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that manufacturer the iPad and iPhone for Apple, these past couple of weeks has been in relation to the ongoing concern over its treatment of its employees however today bring s the news that the company suffered a major hack attack.

A group calling themselves Swagg Security; using an Internet Explorer vulnerability that had been left unpatched by a Foxconn employee, managed to break into the Foxconn network and leaked the login for every employee, including the company CEO, on to the web. They said that the only reason they attempted the security breach of the Foxconn servers was to prove that it could be done.

All the information gathered from the hack was bundled together and put up on the web as torrent which the group encouraged everyone to download and use. Apparently with the information you could place fake orders with the company using the names of Foxconn’s vendor partners like Apple and Microsoft.

They also released this statement about the attack:

“This is Swagg Security, we aim to to reshape your perspectives, our perspectives, by the inducing of entertainment. A unique approach to spreading a unique philosophy which brings the sought after tranquility. In a way we are “hacktivist”, but in our own views we are Greyhats. We believe there is no reality in hacktivism, even with good intentions. We know those who claim to be “hacktivists” that inside of you, a suppressed part of you, enjoys playing a part in the anarchist event of hacking of an infrastructure. One which at the same time presents a challenge, upon completing reveals an almost unknown feeling of a menacing satisfaction. We encourage not to continue quelling such a natural emotion but to embrace it. Only when embracing what society has taught you to hinder, is when you realize your own identity” Swagg Security statement

via SlashGear