Cydia's Popular BigBoss Repo Allegedly Gets Hacked
BigBoss, one of the biggest and most popular Cydia repositories, has allegedly been hacked. Attackers “Kim Jong-Cracks” claim to have gained access to all packages — including paid titles — and made them available for free via their own repo. Cydia users are advised to steer well clear of it, however.
If you’re unfamiliar with Cydia, it’s the jailbreaker’s App Store alternative for iOS. It contains thousands of apps, tweaks, themes, and other downloads that Apple wouldn’t approve of. The BigBoss repository has long been one of Cydia’s biggest and best, but it may have just been hit hard by hackers.
The new “ripBigBoss” repo from Kim Jong-Cracks claims to offer all BigBoss packages (13,954 in total) for free; they’ve even published a massive log file that names each and every one of those packages — and their MD5 sums — as proof of their success. But it’s not entirely clearly why BigBoss was targeted.
