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| Police reportedly raided the boy's home last year and found hacking files and instructions saved in a folder called 'hacky hack hack' (AFP Photo/Josh Edelson) |
Sydney (AFP) - A schoolboy who "dreamed" of working for Apple hacked the firm's computer systems, Australian media has reported, although the tech giant said Friday no customer data was compromised.
The
Children's Court of Victoria was told the teenager broke into Apple's mainframe
-- a large, powerful data processing system -- from his home in the suburbs of
Melbourne and downloaded 90GB of secure files, The Age reported late Thursday.
The boy,
then aged 16, accessed the system multiple times over a year as he was a fan of
Apple and had "dreamed of" working for the US firm, the newspaper
said, citing his lawyer.
Apple said
in a statement Friday that its teams "discovered the unauthorised access,
contained it, and reported the incident to law enforcement".
The firm,
which earlier this month became the first private-sector company to surpass
US$1 trillion in market value, said it wanted "to assure our customers
that at no point during this incident was their personal data
compromised".
An
international investigation was launched after the discovery involving the FBI
and the Australian Federal Police, The Age reported.
The federal
police said it could not comment on the case as it is still before the court.
The Age
said police raided the boy's home last year and found hacking files and
instructions saved in a folder called "hacky hack hack".
"Two
Apple laptops were seized and the serial numbers matched the serial numbers of
the devices which accessed the internal systems," a prosecutor was
reported as saying.
A mobile
phone and hard drive were also seized whose IP address matched those detected
in the breaches, he added.
The teen
has pleaded guilty and the case is due to return to court for his sentencing
next month.
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