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Apple Breached by Facebook Hackers Using Java Exploit

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Apple is the latest major American company to enter the security confessional and disclose it has been breached. The company told Reuters today it was attacked by the same crew that hit Facebook, which disclosed its breach last Friday, and that like the social media giant, no data had been stolen.

In both cases, a Java zero-day vulnerability had been exploited by attackers, in this case, to gain access to Apple machines. Reuters is reporting that the same attack was used against other Mac computers at hundreds of companies, including some in the defense industrial base.

"Apple has identified malware which infected a limited number of Mac systems through a vulnerability in the Java plug-in for browsers. The malware was employed in an attack against Apple and other companies, and was spread through a website for software developers," said Reuters, quoting a statement from Apple. "We identified a small number of systems within Apple that were infected and isolated them from our network. There is no evidence that any data left Apple.”