http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/ Engadget Comments for AT&T breach reveals 114,000 iPad owners' email addresses, including some elite customers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
FUUUUUUUUUUU]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
You've got a private profile...say hi to Josh for me ;)]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/It was unbiased and people said they liked Evo.

Bad image for Apple ya know how it is.]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/I love Lord Vader. But people stop destroying my internets.]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
are we playing musical chairs or are these comments flipping around?]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
You can get rid of the comments without getting rid of the article. The article was AWESOME.]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
You are being naive not fair. You honestly cannot call that many consecutive comments "fanboy posts".]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
You can see very clearly that Engadget is quite capable of deleting comments... /(>. < \ )

Delete the comments, not the article. Easy. I want that article back.]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
I think its just a bug!!!

I'm being optimistic here hehe]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
Larry Seltzer is an idiot if he thinks CEOs and Government officials won't mind getting their inboxes clogged with spam.]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
I swear, Android vs. Apple is worse than politics

Believe me, I am a fandroid and a democrat. ]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Serves them right for wasting money on a toy. ]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
re: "that's a bunch of BS, don't try to sugarcoat it, most of us realize what's going on here!"

I'm not realizing what's going on here. In fact, I'm a bit confused as to why that article vanished. Why would Engadget removed an entire revenue-generating article regardless of who was winning the poll or who was dominating the comments section?

I'm sure Evo + iPhone is a massive page hit generator for Engadget at this time. The bulk of site visitors seem to visit iPhone news (as apparently corroborated by Engadget traffic during the iPhone 4 announcement), whereas a good chunk of people who actually bother to comment seem to favor Android news. Removing that article loses both audiences, wouldn't it?

re: "The comments clearly favored the EVO, engadget is a blog, not governed by the FCC, they do not have to censor anything."

Perhaps they were stifling a flamewar instead? I had only gotten down to the first page of comments when the article disappeared, so I never got to see if it all devolved into uninformative vitriol. I never even got to see the poll results, 'cause I didn't cast a vote.]]>Jun 9th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
re: "Seeing that the comments in the censored article did not favor the iphone, engadget decided to censor it."

... mm I dunno! :-/ I may be naive about this, but even when comments were shut down following the iPad launch, articles were never actually pulled (although comments and user accounts clearly were excised). As Tuan mentioned, the article was actually pretty good, so deleting it seems a waste.

As others mentioned, maybe it was just premature to compare the existing Evo to the unreleased iPhone? Or, maybe, people were needlessly reporting too many comments as they got more and more riled up. I wonder if Engadget is incapable of locking out further comments without withdrawing the entire article.]]>Jun 9th 2010 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
I think that article shifts quite a bit of AT&T's network responsibilities onto Apple. I mean, basically they said that because you need your email address to activate the iPad, Apple is required to secure AT&T's website scripting. To me that sounds like an incredible leap in obligations.

First: "... the web security group exploited vulnerabilities on the AT&T network .... The slip up appears to be AT&T's fault at the moment. .... the security vulnerability was confined to AT&T servers..."

Then: ".... Apple bears responsibility for ensuring the privacy of its users, who must provide the company with their email addresses to activate their iPads. .... Apple has a pronounced responsibility to patrol the network vendors it chooses..."

Even though: "Goatse Security obtained its data through a script on AT&T's website, .... in what was apparently intended to be an AJAX-style response within a Web application. .... To make AT&T's servers respond, the security group merely had to send an iPad-style "User agent" header in their Web request. Such headers identify users' browser types to websites."

While their headline states the breach is Apple's, they also say: "It's unclear if AT&T has notified Apple of the breach."

They then quote someone who says ".... the disclosure of the ICC-ID has no direct security consequences. .... It's horrendous how customer data, specifically e-mail addresses, are negligently leaked by a large telco provider."

I mean, by that article's reasoning, my bank is responsible for ensuring that my ISP isn't compromised during an online banking session. Is that a correct analogy to what the article is saying? Even the comments section of that article criticizes them for fingerpointing.]]>Jun 9th 2010 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
http://gizmodo.com/5559586/should-i-worry-about-the-apple-ipad-%252B-att-security-breach-probably-not]]>Jun 9th 2010 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 10th 2010 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
Long live, Lord Vader!]]>Jun 10th 2010 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Engad posted an explanation yesterday. They will post it again after they've spent some quality time with the iPhone, and can offer a thorough assessment.
]]>Jun 10th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/It's those immature babies at ebaumsworld.com]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
Maybe Apple could help out AT&T with some more secure OSX servers…..]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/I googled them.

What was seen cannot be unseen.]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
Goatse Security
"Gaping holes exposed."

I lol'd.]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
I really hope this security failure constitutes some sort of breach of contract. ]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
I missed that part. Did something in the article indicate that this was a failure on Apple's part, or do you just want that to be true?]]>Jun 9th 2010 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
maybe, but att is (one of many) Apple problems]]>Jun 9th 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/They gave Luke Wilson a job. That's got to count for something.]]>Jun 9th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/
a+faked+ipadilla+useragent...did you miss that part this time around too? Or do you want it to just not exist. Do your eyes defocus and your brain stops processing when you read it? Probably.]]>Jun 10th 2010 1:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/atandt-breach-reveals-114-000-ipad-owners-email-addresses-includ/Jun 9th 2010 7:20PM