Hacker group breaks into Apple supplier Foxconn

A hacker group broke into the computer systems of a Taiwan-based supplier of major electronics brands such as Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp., and dumped a list of its mail server usernames and passwords on the Internet. The hackers calling themselves Swagg Security claimed it did the attack for entertainment, according to a post on Pastebin.com. "Although we are considerably disappointed of the conditions of Foxconn, we are not hacking a corporation for such a reason and although we are slightly interested in the existence of an iPhone 5, we are not hacking for this reason. We hack for the cyberspace who share a few common viewpoints and philosophies. We enjoy exposing governments and corporations, but the more prominent reason, is the hilarity that ensues when compromising and destroying an infrastructure. How unethical right?" they said. The group was referring to recent reports of employee suicides due to bad working conditions, rumors of Apple's next-generation iPhone. Swagg Security claimed to be a group of "greyhats," somewhere between "good-intentioned" white-hat hackers and "malevolent" black-hat ones. On the other hand, it said the passwords inside files leaked on The Pirate Bay "could allow individuals to make fraudulent orders under big companies like Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Intel, and Dell." Browser hole exploited A separate article on 9to5mac said the hackers gained access through an unpatched Microsoft Internet Explorer browser vulnerability used by a worker inside Foxconn. "We were able to verify these logins worked on more than one Foxconn server," their post said.