Political hacking group Anonymous, also known as Antisec and Lulzsec, announced yesterday that it had hacked 12 million Apple unique device identifiers (UDIDs) off of an FBI-owned Dell Vostro computer. The FBI denied the reports altogether, calling them "completely false".

The hactivist group stated that it had stolen the UDIDs from the FBI laptop and released 1 million of them in a compressed file as proof, claiming that the information was stolen as a part of an "audit" the group had conducted on the FBI.

For its part, a spokesman for the FBI denies not only that the computer was hacked, but that the organization was in possession of the data in question in the first place, and released a statement saying, "At this time there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data."

Apparently tired of the requests for comments it was getting, the hacker group turned somewhat whimsical and issued a statement saying that no journalists would be getting comments until Gawker writer Adrian Chen posted pictures of himself wearing a tutu with a sneaker on his head on the site's front page for a full day. It's unclear if Anonymous has held up its end of the bargain, but the photos of Chen are available here.

Constantine von Hoffman, a blogger for CIO.com specializing in secuity, came to the seemingly obvious conclusion that one of the organizations must be lying. Since both organizations are secretive by nature, it is likely that we will never know the whole truth, but some of the facts are likely to come to light in the coming days.

So far, security experts are saying that consumers don't have too much to worry about. But if you do run into security trouble, be it from an international hacking group or a computer virus, the experts at PortableOne specialize in laptop repair, and can help you sort it out or offer you an affordable replacement.