Leak suggests Obama’s iPad was one of the millions of devices tracked by the FBI

Sep 5, 2012 12:47 GMT  ·  By

According to PasteHTML, US President Barack Obama is one of the people whose iOS UDID (unique device identifier) got leaked as the result of an attack by AntiSec earlier this week.

The hackers allegedly broke into an FBI laptop and downloaded roughly 12 million iOS IDs, as well as information that can link the data to actual users. Of those 12 million devices, one million saw their UDID leaked into the wild. Of that figure, Pres. Obama was one of them, says the anonymous web hosting site.

For who’s asking, Obama’s UDID is 473d6e1ebf0b100ed172ce5f69c97ba6c8f12ad5. His device’s name reportedly is “hobamain,” which appears to be a mashup of his middle name, “Hussein,” with the last.

The story hasn’t been confirmed, of course, and the FBI is actually denying AntiSec’s claims that they had tracked and downloaded information from 12 million iOS devices. AntiSec says they’re sitting on 3 terabytes of data that can prove the FBI is lying.