A hackergroepering which itself Swagg Security is called, claims to computer systems from Foxconn to have cracked. There is, among other things, a list of credentials published. Foxconn now has a few servers taken offline.
According to Swagg Security, others with the on The Pirate Bay published data, including usernames and passwords of e-mail accounts, fake place orders with Foxconn. So would an attacker can do if for example Microsoft or Apple. Foxconn, the largest electronics manufacturer in the world, would now the ordering system on services.foxconn.com have shut down. The company refuses to comment about the alleged hacks.
The members of Swagg Security, who see themselves as greyhats describe, would the network of Foxconn have managed to crack it by making use of an exploit for Internet Explorer. So they knew the firewall of the company ” with great simplicity,’ to pass through.
Although the hackers working conditions at Foxconn described as ‘very disappointing’, they claim to be not for that reason, the builder of the iPhone and the iPad have cracked. Security mentions as motivation “the hilarity that ensues when compromising and destroying network infrastructure’.