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Apple Computers Hit By Hackers That Targeted Facebook

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    FBN's Shibani Joshi on Apple's hack attack.

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This why I'm against apple the company confirming its computers were attacked by what appears to be the same hackers who targeted FaceBook.

So -- Joshi has he -- from the newsroom Shibani.

Hi there actually yes let's get everyone up to speed apple has revealed that it has become a victim of a malicious cyber attack.

This announced just hours ago coming on the heels of news at face that you just mentioned it.

Yesterday we were on air telling you about a cyber attack that -- revealed late on Friday night.

I revealing in a blog posts and it was a victim of Chinese hacker attack that would staged.

In sophisticated.

Attacks over in the month of February it alluded to the fact that other companies could be involved and now we know apple is one of those companies.

Here's a statement that we just Scotland in the last hour about the attack from apple seeing quotes.

Apple has identified malware which infected a limited number of maxis in -- vulnerability in a job that plug in for browsers.

The malware was spread through a web -- for software developers we identified a small number of systems -- an apple that were infected.

Isolated them from our network -- there is no evidence that any data left apple.

And we're working closely with -- enforcement officials to find the source of the now where to vacate takeaways here know.

-- at left apple may appear to have found a fix for -- about let's talk about.

A long laundry list of very influential.

Very prominent very important US companies who had been hit.

I Chinese cyber attacks just literally in the last few weeks.

Now apples on that list we also have FaceBook Twitter wall street journal of the New York Times.

Very troubling and certainly something that present a -- -- alluded to in his State of the Union Address is being top priority.

Now for any Mac owners out there if you want to protect yourself from this.

Apple has said that they have installed in -- today if you haven't solved shot at today they are releasing an updated job and now or removal -- That we'll check your Mac and keep it up to date so any Mac users out there that are watching me -- you go home and do that first thing.

All right in the.

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