Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg:
As Apple Inc. was revealing its newest line of iPads and flashy new iMacs on Tuesday, one of its primary suppliers was enduring a ransomware attack from a Russian operator claiming to have stolen blueprints of the U.S. company’s latest products.
Then, about an email exchange with the hackers:
REvil then delivered on its promise to publish data it believes to be Apple’s proprietary blueprints for new devices. The images include specific component serial numbers, sizes and capacities detailing the many working parts inside of an Apple laptop.
A pretty significant security lapse. If those images became public, I wonder how significant the harm would be. A leg up for competitors trying to copy Apple designs? Or more of an annoyance, since the products have been announced, and will ship soon, available to be taken apart and examined firsthand?