BY: David Barbosa,source:tabletpcreview.com
News that an apparent security breach exposed the email addresses and other identifying information of 114,000 Apple iPad owners is not only bad for AT&T the iPads wireless service provider but could also create a roadblock for the iPad entry into privacy-sensitive industry segments like healthcare.
The apparent iPad email breach happened this week and was allegedly perpetrated by a hacking group called Goatse Security. The group managed to discover the integrated circuit card (ICC) ID number on each users SIM card by running a script on AT&Ts network through a bogus iPad UserAgent, which then returned the exposed addresses to the hackers. The emails reportedly exposed included the CEOs of The New York Times and Time Inc., as well as execs at Google and Microsoft.
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