Re: [Fed-Talk] INFO: US iPad 3G owners: AT&T just gave up your email address (Updated w/ Statement from AT&T)
Re: [Fed-Talk] INFO: US iPad 3G owners: AT&T just gave up your email address (Updated w/ Statement from AT&T)
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] INFO: US iPad 3G owners: AT&T just gave up your email address (Updated w/ Statement from AT&T)
- From: "Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:17:31 -0400
- Priority: normal
So I'm missing what "Gawker" is saying Apple has to feel embarrassed about since it was an AT&T scripting/website error...except for continuing to deal exclusively with them. I saw another article somewhere that conjectured that exclusivity can't stay in place long, either, because of legality issues.
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From: Albert Michael Trivison <email@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 22:32
Subject: [Fed-Talk] INFO: US iPad 3G owners: AT&T just gave up your email address (Updated w/ Statement from AT&T)
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> > Date: 9 June 2010 14:21:12 PDT
> > Subject: US iPad 3G owners: AT&T just gave up your email address
> (Updated w/ Statement from AT&T)
> > Source: 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
> > Author: Seth Weintraub
> >
> > AT&T! What's not to love?! According to Gawker, hackers were
> able to access a script on the AT&T website that would give up an
> iPad user email address if the iPad ICC-ID's were known. The
> hackers, part of a group called Goatse Security (OMG), used known
> ICC-ID numbers to create a program to automatically pull 114,000
> email addresses including high ranking military, business and
> government leaders.
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> > AT&T has known about the breach for at least two days, yet
> hasn't notified any customers, according to Gawker.
> >
> > Within the military, we saw several devices registered to the
> domain of DARPA, the advanced research division of the Department
> of Defense, along with the major service branches. To wit: One
> affected individual was William Eldredge, who "commands the
> largest operational B-1 [strategic bomber] group in the U.S. Air
> Force." In the media and entertainment industries, affected
> accounts belonged to top executives at the New York Times Company,
> Dow Jones, Condé Nast, Viacom, Time Warner, News Corporation, HBO
> and Hearst. In finance, accounts belonged to companies from
> Goldman Sachs to JP Morgan to Citigroup to Morgan Stanley. Dozens
> of venture capital and private firms made appearances as well. In
> government, affected accounts included a GMail user who appears to
> be Rahm Emanuel and staffers in the Senate, House of
> Representatives, Department of Justice, NASA, Department of
> Homeland Security, FAA, FCC, and National Institute of Health.
> >
> > AT&T released the following statement:
> >
> > "AT&T was informed by a business customer on Monday of the
> potential exposure of their iPad ICC IDS. The only information
> that can be derived from the ICC IDS is the e-mail address
> attached to that device.
> >
> > This issue was escalated to the highest levels of the company
> and was corrected by Tuesday; and we have essentially turned off
> the feature that provided the e-mail addresses.
> >
> > The person or group who discovered this gap did not contact AT&T.
> >
> > We are continuing to investigate and will inform all customers
> whose e-mail addresses and ICC IDS may have been obtained.
> >
> > We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed
> this problem, we apologize to our customers who were impacted."
> >
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> > Read more…
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