Of course, AT&T has no comment.
NEW YORK – The FBI says it is investigating a data breach at AT&T that exposed the e-mail addresses of more than 114,000 owners of the Apple iPad, including government officials.
The agency said on Thursday that it is looking into “the potential cyber threat” from the breach.
AT&T Inc. said it has no comment. The Dallas-based phone company acknowledged Wednesday that it had exposed the e-mail addresses through a Web site, and had closed the breach.
The vulnerability only affected iPad users who signed up for AT&T’s “3G” wireless Internet service.
An AT&T Web site could be tricked into revealing an iPad owner’s e-mail address when supplied with a code associated with their particular iPad. A hacker group that calls itself Goatse Security said it got the site to cough up more than 114,000 e-mail addresses by guessing which codes would be valid.
FBI investigating AT&T iPad security breach – Yahoo! News
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