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AT&T emails iPad 3G customers, blames ‘hackers’
AT&T has sent out an email to its iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G customers explaining the situation surrounding the recent exposure of over 100,000 customer emails and SIM ICC-ID numbers. Titled “Important Information About Your iPad 3G,” the email from AT&T Senior Vice President Dorothy Attwood states that a group of “unauthorized computer ‘hackers’” used a web address that’s part of the iPad log-in process to determine users’ iCC-ID numbers and get their email addresses. It also states that AT&T took “swift action to prevent any further unauthorized exposure of customer email addresses,” and that [w]ithin hours, AT&T disabled the mechanism that automatically populated the email address.” “I want to assure you that the email address and ICC-ID were the only information that was accessible,” Attwood writes. “Your password, account information, the contents of your email, and any other personal information were never at risk. The hackers never had access to AT&T communications or data networks, or your iPad.” The publication of details relating to the matter recently led the FBI to launch an investigation into the matter.
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Isn’t the purpose of cyber security to prevent “hackers” from accessing this information in the first place? Maybe it’s time for AT&T to learn an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…
Posted by Dave on June 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM (PDT)
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I live in an AT&T back water area where even the AT&T repair employee’s carry Verizon phones so they can get a signal!
I have Sprint and Verizon cellphones, and they work fine here.
AT&T does not even have 3G coverage for my new IPAD! But go figure, I have DSL from AT&T to my dock dock in the same area. So why can’t AT&T rent space on a Sprint or Verizon tower? Too damn cheap, I guess! Come on Apple get rid of the AT&T lock in!
Posted by bob s. on June 19, 2010 at 3:34 PM (PDT)