Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

[Mike Chaos]

Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.

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.

It doesn't stop there. According to the data we were given by the web security group that exploited vulnerabilities on the AT&T network, we believe 114,000 user accounts have been compromised, although it's possible that confidential information about every iPad 3G owner in the U.S. has been exposed. We contacted Apple for comment but have yet to hear back. We also reached out to AT&T for comment. A call to Rahm Emanuel's office at the White House has not been returned.

Read more at http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-ipad-owners-exposed

 

[Italian Outsider]

Oh yes,
The ipad sucks anyways.

 

[Kizza]

We can claim it on tax here under our education rebate. Not that I want it anyways, it's fucking awful.

 

[JurassicBonez]

Got damn. Can you say bankruptcy.

 

[...god...]

Thank God. Fuck Apple.

 

[JurassicBonez]

Wouldn't go that far. Itunes is pretty sweet.

 

[Kizza]

iTunes and my iPod are the only things that Apple have made that don't completely suck.

 

[JurassicBonez]

iTunes and my iPod are the only things that Apple have made that don't completely suck.

Though I think that's the only stuff I've ever used from Apple. I've never owned an Apple computer, but from the one's I've used, they weren't bad.

 

[chessarmy]

I don't get what the iPad is anyways, it looked like a bigger iPod and it seemed pretty useless. This is going to be a huge problem for them to deal with and I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up losing lots of money because of it

 

[Kizza]

Though I think that's the only stuff I've ever used from Apple. I've never owned an Apple computer, but from the one's I've used, they weren't bad.

The Mac's are absolutely useless imo. I can't stand them.

 

[JurassicBonez]

I didn't actually have the time to check out everything on the Apple computer. I was just using photoshop and Itunes on my brothers. The way the icons on their were were pretty good tool. But that's all I know.