Tech | June 09, 2010 | 4 comments

114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

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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.

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When will people realize that all the top technology corps are CIA/In-Q-Tel front companies, using technology created by DARPA and proliferating the military technology into civilian purposes for profit and control. You think these companies are private and in contrast to the government, when they were born and bred at the Pentagon. Break out of the left/right paradigm; these NWO cats are no joke and are operating at a higher level.
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4 comments // 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

  • UtopianSky
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      UtopianSky  
    • Wait a minute- how is this an embarrassment for Apple?

      I don't see a breach in Apple iPad's security here- it's a breach in AT&T's network's security.

      It's amazing what people will do to blame Apple for something.

      ... plus, the bizarre rodstradamus tinfoil hat conspiracy theory at the bottom makes this post ripe for the loony bin file.

    • 2 years ago
  • linuxsapien
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      linuxsapien  
    • And people wonder why i dont want anything to do with the "latest" technology.

      Im happy with my C902, does everything that I require. Its a phone, I want to text and call people! I dont need something that does everything else but give me an erection!

    • 2 years ago
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