Apple user leak 'came from Florida publishing company' - not FBI

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App publisher Blue Toad claims that it - not FBI agent Christopher K. Stangl - was responsible for Apple user data leak

The CEO of a small Florida publishing company has suggested that it was the source of a leak of one-million-plus Apple users' personal details, which hacking group Anonymous had attributed to the c...

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