The FBI is investigating a security breach of AT&T’s website that allowed hackers to access the e-mail addresses of iPad owners.
“The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions,” an FBI spokesman said in an e-mailed statement. “We have opened an investigation to address the potential cyber threat.” The Bureau did not comment on the scope of its investigation.
A hacker group called Goatse Security exploited a vulnerability on AT&T’s website to harvest the e-mail addresses that iPad 3G buyers provided to activate their devices. The group sent the information to tech and gossip blog Gawker, which reported that 114,000 e-mail addresses were exposed.
The exposure connected subscribers’ e-mail addresses with their iPad ICC IDs, a unique identification number used to link devices with their owners. AT&T linked them so that users of Apple’s 3G version of the iPad would not have to type in their e-mail addresses every time they wanted to access or change their AT&T account and billing settings.
This security breach has exposed nothing less than 114,000 iPad owners (including CEOs, military officials and top politicians), here is a quick sneak peek of the list-
As far as AT&T is concerned they refused to comment on the FBI probe. – Source
