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: "Miller, Timothy J." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:33:49 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] INFO: US iPad 3G owners: AT&T just gave up your email address (Updated w/ Statement from AT&T)
Given that all 5 major UK carriers now offer the iPhone 4, I'm wondering how much longer carrier exclusivity can possibly last as a general principle.
-- Tim
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>talk-bounces+tmiller=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Villano,
>Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC
>Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:18 AM
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>Subject: Re: [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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>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.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>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)
>To: email@hidden
>
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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."
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Read more...
>> >
>>
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