How sloppy security exposed Apple’s super-secret product plans

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http://www.cultofmac.com/308478/confidential-apple-product-plans-quanta/

By Leander Kahney
Cult of Mac
Jan 9, 2015

Incredibly sloppy security at one of Apple’s key suppliers exposed some of 
Cupertino’s most closely guarded secrets to anybody who could conduct a 
simple Google search.

For months, one of Quanta Computer‘s internal databases could be accessed 
using usernames and a default password published in a PowerPoint 
presentation easily found on the Web.

Quanta, based in Taiwan, is the world’s largest notebook manufacturer. In 
addition to Apple, Quanta assembles laptops and ultrabooks for dozens of 
companies, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Sony. The company is 
also supposedly assembling the upcoming Apple Watch and the long-rumored 
iPad Pro, though no official announcements have been made.

The security lapse comes at a time of rapidly accelerating hacking 
incidents and cyberattacks, from credit card breaches and celebrity nude 
selfie leaks to the damaging theft of Sony’s most sensitive corporate 
data. The fact that the confidential plans of a company as secretive as 
Apple can be laid bare through a series of security missteps illustrates 
just how difficult it is to safeguard information in the digital era.

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