AT&T breach reveals 114,000 iPad owners' email addresses, including some elite customers

Uh oh. According to Valleywag, an AT&T security breach led to the exposure of 114,000 email addresses (and associated SIM / ICC identifiers) belonging to Apple iPad owners. A group of hackers calling themselves Goatse Security (be careful looking that one up) figured out a number of ICC-IDs and ran a script on AT&T's site through a faked iPad UserAgent, which would then return the associated addresses. Some of those affected were actually quite big names, including the CEOs of The New York Times and Time Inc., some higher-ups at Google and Microsoft, and even a number of employees from NASA, FAA, FCC, and the US military.

For its part, AT&T tells AllThingsD that it was informed of the issue on Monday, that only the addresses and associated ICC-IDs were revealed, and that by Tuesday the "feature" that allowed addresses to be seen had been turned off. And as Security Watch's Larry Seltzer cautions in a statement to PC Mag, the impact of this breach -- just email addresses -- is probably somewhat exaggerated. Still, regardless of the magnitude, this can't be making AT&T's day at all bright, and you best believe a number of folks in Cupertino have fire in their eyes over this bad press.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[Ops Posted Jun 10th 2010 2:15AM]

figures it was ATTWS, they are a joke

[b0rndead Posted Jun 10th 2010 4:55AM]

Being thrown in a cage as a user doesnt mean your data is ...

Goatse is a classic man - must be some cool guys i guess ;)

[pika2000 Posted Jun 10th 2010 5:07AM]

AT&T official respond: "This is why we should cap everybody down from using the internet. It's dangerous and filled with criminals. We would cap our wireless internet to a generous 1MB for our users' protection. It should be plenty for reading text emails from your grandma."

[JustThatNerdyGuy Posted Jun 10th 2010 11:21AM]

Just another reason NOT to buy an iPad!

[dreamer3kx Posted Jun 10th 2010 1:58PM]

What a useless piece of hardware now throw this mess in and..........

[TechBlogger Posted Jun 10th 2010 3:32PM]

It only 114 thousand names guys. You know, like there is only 20 barrels of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico a day. Corporatist are known to tell the truth except when under oath.