The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FBI is now investigating the AT&T security breach that resulted in some 114,000 email addresses and SIM Identifiers being exposed. This of course only affected users of the iPad 3G.
“The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation,” said Katherine Schweit, an FBI spokeswoman. Ms. Schweit said the FBI began the investigation Thursday but wouldn’t comment on what the bureau is looking at. “It’s very early in the investigation,” she added.
The FBI will likely look at a couple of things in their investigation. Fist, how the hackers got the information. Second, what was the gathered information used for. One of the hackers, Escher Auernheimer that exploited the whole in AT&T’s website to gain access to the information, claims nothing illegal was done. The reason being, that the hackers only entered information into a public website. Uh-huh.
As for what the group did with the information between the time they gathered it and the time it was handed over to Gawker is purely speculation. However, the group claims that Gawker was the only institution outside of the group to see that data, and the group only released the information after the whole was closed by AT&T. The group states that, “made sure that someone else tipped them [AT&T] off.” Uh-huh.
So let me get this straight. A group of hackers exploit a whole in AT&T’s website and gain access to large quantities of sensitive data. They claim they have done nothing wrong, and to their credit did alert AT&T to the problem, but then oddly went to Gawker first before alerting AT&T.
Why pick Gawker? They’re in enough trouble as it is right now, they don’t need to be implemented in another scandal.
Wild hypothesis that might get me in trouble later on: Gawker is behind this. I mean, it wouldn’t be the first shady thing this rag has done. Their motivation? No idea. That’s why it’s still a hypothesis.
Regardless, AT&T has sent out and email to affected users letting them know of the breach, and that AT&T is addressing the issue.
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