Not to cause undue alarm, but Valleywag is reporting that a security breach on AT&T’s website has given public access to some 114,000 iPad 3G AT&T customer’s email addresses and SIM card ID numbers.
The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s information was compromised.
The breach has since been closed and neither Apple nor AT&T have commented on the leak. The breach was caused by data meant for a Web application on the iPad, someone then discovered the breach and was able to guess (yes, guess) large numbers of SIM ID numbers by using a handful of known ID numbers coupled with a script and the iPad user agent setting on their web browser to gather email addresses associated with their respective SIM ID.
Some have suggested that this hole could have been used to intercept data, while security researchers think otherwise.
I can’t wait for Apple to dump these clowns.
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