Sunday, June 13, 2010

FBI Launches Investigation into AT&T iPad Breach

A couple of days back, Gawker revealed an AT&T data breach that affected more than 100,000 iPad users.

On Wednesday, a security team spoke to Gawker about anAT&T vulnerability it had exploited to gain information about iPad users. As a result of their research, they had obtained what the web is now calling, "the most exclusive email list on the planet." Goatse Security's list includes the email addresses of NYT CEO Janet Robinson, Harvey Weinstein, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Diane Sawyer of ABC News. While the breach was reported to AT&T and the security hole closed, Goatse shared the exploit with third parties and is unsure who took advantage before AT&T had the chance to fix things.

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