NEWS: Apple iPad users' e-mail addresses harvested by hackers
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From: John Navas on 10 Jun 2010 09:47 The US telephone company AT&T has blocked access to a website feature that revealed details of at least 114,000 iPad users' e-mail addresses. Contact details for a range of high-profile figures, including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are believed to be among those disclosed. Hackers calling themselves Goatse Security revealed the flaw and shared the data with Gawker Media. Experts played down the risks, saying little critical data had been lost. AT&T, which is the only network offering iPad 3G services in the United States, said it would notify all iPad users whose e-mail adresses may have been accessed. "We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed this problem, we apologize to our customers who were impacted," the company said in a statement. The vulnerability only involved iPad users who had signed up for AT&T's 3G wireless service, and users of the iPad outside the US are believed to be unaffected. MORE: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10282263.stm> -- Best regards, John "It's a poor workman who blames his tools." [proverb] |