Firm admits its files had Apple consumer data

A Florida company has admitted its files — not an FBI agent’s laptop — were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

It had initially been reported that hackers had taken 12m Apple user IDs from an FBI computer.

“We want to apologise, announce what happened and set the record straight,” said Paul DeHart, chief executive officer of software company BlueToad Inc.