High drama has been the name of the game with the 12 million stolen Apple UDID fiasco. Anonymous claimed, in detail, how the information was stolen, purportedly from the FBI. The FBI vehemently denied being the source of the leak, as did Apple. Now it turns out an app publisher, Blue Toad was the source of the leak. A security researcher named David Schuetz disclosed how he was able to analyze and trace the UDID database down to Blue Toad. 

So while there was apparently misplaced outrage with what the FBI could potentially be doing with the information, the truth of what transpired is somewhat worse. Countless independent app publishers are potentially in possession of collected UDID information and potentially causing some serious privacy concerns. Unleashed as targets for the hacker community, the concern for security is pretty strong. For the record, Blue Toad has accepted responsibility – and vows to step up the security. However that has done little to disarm the issue of an unknown number UDID databases in the hands of app publishers.

Antisec maintains it was an FBI hack, according to a newly updated Pastebin:

we dont know what … is blue toad and wtf is doing on this. but, more juicy thing, you have a problem, houston:SOME JOURNALISTS KNEW ABOUT THIS HACK QUITE LONG TIME BEFORE YOU, BLUE TOAST (or whatever), DECLARED TO BE HACKED.

It continues:

we are not here trying to force you to believe us.we have just posted our data and statement, and given out our point of view. you r free to do what u want with them. we will post tech details when we feel its fit best but we’re convinced any sort of extra detail, at least on this one, will finish being played down anyway;

The release also voices the Antisec stance on a number of issues, pointedly focused on the $1 billion project for facial recognition network. It suggests that what Blue Toad taking responsibility for being hacked in the UDID release, and GoDaddy’s statement that their networks were an issue in yesterday’s outage as opposed to being attacked are false notions. So who’s telling the truth? It’s hard to tell, there is quite a verifiable trail in the tracking of the UDIDs to Blue Toad. Regardless, it is clear this saga will continue.