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[isthisthingon]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/198453/atandt_exposes_data_on_114000_ipad_owners.html?tk=hp_new

The first sentence of the article says it all:

Oops.

Wow what an oversight.  Heads are gonna roll?  Don't count on it.  The PR excuse machine probably already has an answer which if questioned constitutes heresy 

[nutballs]

Cool, now I expect to win the Hungarian national lottery!
Or was it Namibia?

[perkiset]

I'm looking for specifics on how it happened but aren't getting enough. Heads will roll certainly, but we'll probably not hear about it.

Man, AT&T just can't catch a break. And no matter how you slice it, this drapes badly upon Apple as well as their partner. At the least, people assume to feel "safer" with Apple ... this is about as naked and buns up kneeling as you're going to get with them. Cripes the list of people exposed... Rahm Emanuel? Yikes. I'd not want to be in AT&T's moccasins today.

@ "Oversight" - do you know more about the circumstances of the leak? Was it a simple "Whoopsie, forgot to lock the door" sort of thing?

[nop_90]

Heads never roll, unless it is some defenceless victom.
They will probably blame it on some mexican janitor who does not understand english and fire him.

Guy who is responsible will probably get a promotion.

[perkiset]

Here it is: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/cbGD9_IAjgE/17672

Looks like an honest, if un-thought-out design flaw. I wonder how the 114k number came to be ... Was that all they got before it was shut down?

[nutballs]

im gonna guess 114k is the number of ipad ATT 3g accounts. Im sure a lot of people bought the 3g version, without service until they decide they need it.

[isthisthingon]

I know as much/little as you guys do.  I would hope that a thorough report with all the details shows up soon though.

[kurdt]

Here it is: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/cbGD9_IAjgE/17672

Looks like an honest, if un-thought-out design flaw. I wonder how the 114k number came to be ... Was that all they got before it was shut down?

Maybe because according some article I read, those guys developed some sort of algo that guessed those ICC-ID numbers based on already known ones. Maybe they just didn't get anymore valid ones?

[isthisthingon]

Here's an update: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/061410-att-ipad-security.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2010-06-14

Looks like emails are not the only thing people can rather easily gain access to, contrary to what AT&T has asserted.  The location of users, email content and other critical information is also at risk, though some of this additional information requires a bit more hacking than the easily retrievable list of email addresses.