Cybersecurity

Apple, FBI Deny Hacker Claim of Breach of Apple User Data

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Apple Inc. and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation denied claims by hackers who said they stole information on 12 million Apple Inc. user accounts from an FBI computer.

Many of the hackers’ claims, posted this week in a long online missive from the group calling itself Anonymous. The FBI said in a statement yesterday that there was “no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data.”