Jun 10, 2010

Worst Apple security breach: 114,000I Pad owners exposed

Apple is embarrassed again. This time it’s the worst security breach in the company’s history as 114,000 iPad owners could be exposed to spam marketing and malicious hacking.

This includes all iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians.

The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive e-mail 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.

The report at the link below says it doesn't stop there. According to the data they were given by the web security group that exploited vulnerabilities on the AT&T network, they 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!

More here.