Australian Teen Hacker Gets Probation for Downloading Apple Data

An Australian teenager who hacked Apple Inc. systems over several months and downloaded sensitive data avoided a jail term, as a court heard he was fascinated by the tech giant and found accessing its networks addictive. The now adult defendant, who was 16 at the time the hacking began, accessed Apple’s internal systems and copied data and authentication keys, a magistrate told a Children’s Court.

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