| Mobile devices are slick, powerful and convenient, but the news this week that AT&T suffered a data breach on thousands of iPads highlighted another quality: They’re vulnerable. As more personal information migrates to mobile devices, experts say hackers have increasing opportunities to track people, listen in on phone calls and intercept e-mails or documents. The security breach in a Web service used by Apple’s new iPad 3G that was revealed this week suggested the potential stakes involved. ... read more»
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| (from business Insider at 6-14-2010) |
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| AT&T has finally contacted its customers about the security flaw that allowed a third-party to easily pull the email addresses of thousands of iPad users off AT&T's web site. The NYT's Nick Bilton procured the note AT&T sent out. It's long. Here's our synopsis: The breach wasn't our fault. It was the fault of bad people called hackers who maliciously broke into our web site and stole your email address. If there were not bad people like these people, your email address would have been perf... read more»
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| iPad E-mail Hackers Claim They Haven't Broken the Law | |
| | (from PC World at 6-12-2010) | |
| | The hackers who harvested an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad 3G owner e-mail addresses defended their actions Friday as "ethical" and said they did nothing illegal. The hacking group Goatse Security obtained the e-mail addresses using an automated PHP script that collected iPad 3G owners' ICC-ID numbers and associated addresses from AT&T's servers using a publicly-available feature of the carrier's Web site. AT&T disabled the feature last Tuesday, a day before the Valleywag Web site first rep... read more» |
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| AT&T Blames 'Hackers' For iPad Security Breach | |
| (from IT Proportal at 6-14-2010) | |
| US wireless carrier AT&T has blamed a company of self-styled "hackers", Goatse Security, for an e-mail leak that exposed the personal data of over 100,000 US iPad 3G users, including top-ranking officials at the White House. In an e-mailed apology to all affected users, AT&T said it was sorry for the security lapse that led to the incident, blaming "computer hackers" who "maliciously exploited" a function implemented by the company in order to speed up the iPad log-in process.... read more» | |
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| iPad email theft not a hack, say security researchers | |
| (from ComputerWorldUk at 6-14-2010) | |
| Security experts blamed a brute force attack that exposed the email addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners on poorly-designed AT&T software. The harvesting of over 100,000 iPad 3G owners' email addresses was not a hack or a classic data breach, but a brute force attack of a minor feature AT&T offered to Apple customers, experts said Wednesday. According to New York-based Praetorian Security Group, which obtained a copy of the PHP script used to scrape email addresses from AT&T's server... read more» |
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