IPad Security Breach

[KickAssFlash]

http://gawker.com/5559346/

Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.

The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised.

It doesn't stop there. According to the data we were given by the web security group that exploited vulnerabilities on the AT&T network, we believe 114,000 user accounts have been compromised, although it's possible that confidential information about every iPad 3G owner in the U.S. has been exposed. We contacted Apple for comment but have yet to hear back. We also reached out to AT&T for comment. A call to Rahm Emanuel's office at the White House has not been returned.

I don't know how this can be blamed on Apple. Sounds like AT&T is on the hook.


I wouldn't mind getting a hold of Rahm Emanuel's information, though

[jdominick]

Looked like a bunch of libs....

[KickAssFlash]

Looked like a bunch of libs....

Check out the name of the group that obtained the information:

The subscriber data was obtained by a group calling itself Goatse Security. Though the group is steeped in off-the-wall, 4chan-style internet culture—its name is a reference to a famous gross-out Web picture—it has previously highlighted real security vulnerabilities in the Firefox and Safari Web browsers, and attracted media attention for finding what it said were flaws in Amazon's community ratings system.

[jdominick]

Check out the name of the group that obtained the information:

lol

[Fernanernie]

The list obtained contained the ID numbers of the iPads, and through a hole in at&t website, email addresses were collected. All this from a lost phone and some good reverse engineering

[KickAssFlash]

The list obtained contained the ID numbers of the iPads, and through a hole in at&t website, email addresses were collected. All this from a lost phone and some good reverse engineering

This was a result of that phone? I didn't read anything to that effect in the article. Bad news for Apple if it is.

[Fernanernie]

This was a result of that phone? I didn't read anything to that effect in the article. Bad news for Apple if it is.

I stand corrected, it doesn't deal with the phone. Listening to podcasts and reading news articles owns me

[kineda]

[Outrun]

It just works.

/Apple Fanboy

[kineda]

It just works.

/Apple Fanboy

maybe it was just apple hacking their personal info, i mean shit look at all the money they could save in production costs by just withdrawing money directly from the fanbois.

[ACRucrazy]

I love my evo.


Oh, this isnt an evo/iphone debate?

Pardon me

/stir

[Fernanernie]

maybe it was just apple hacking their personal info, i mean shit look at all the money they could save in production costs by just withdrawing money directly from the fanbois.

IB4PhillyBlunt

[68GTO]

This is an AT&T Security Breach, NOT an iPad security problem. AT&T failed, not apple...

[ACRucrazy]

This is an AT&T Security Breach, NOT an iPad security problem. AT&T failed, not apple...

Thank you captain obvious, this was stated in the opening post in this thread.

[Phillyblunt474]

IB4PhillyBlunt

Hey, I don't like iPads, or AT&T really for that matter. I just enjoy my iPhone and like getting all the hypocrite android leg humpers up in arms whenever an iPhone is mentioned