Being successful and famous in the field of business always has its downside, people getting envy, trying to destroy the good image of the company and making issues bigger just to get hold of the public’s attention and tarnish the company’s name. AT & T and Apple Company have been experiencing these things ever since they became successful in their business field.
According to a report, Apple and AT &T had suffered a security breach when a list of email addresses as well as associated SIM/ICC identifiers of some famous Apple iPad owners had been exposed. The breach had made over 114,000 email addresses to be known (illegally) in public. Some of the affected were well known people like White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, some high-persons at Google and Microsoft, and numbers of employees from NASA, FAA, FCC and military officials.
The said breach was made by Goatse Security, a group of hackers who were able to figure out a number of ICC-IDs and an a script on the site of AT &T through the use of a fake iPad User Agent thus getting access to the addresses of some of the users.
The security breach report was said to be made by one of the least favorite journalist of Steve Jobs, Ryan Tate which had a bad history with the Apple’s CEO. Tate described the incident as Apple’s “worst” making it looked like it was the company’s fault. However, looking at the incident, it was just a simple leak of email addresses which doesn’t carry access to very private information’s and it doesn’t quite look like losing a credit card or social security number. Also, it wasn’t clear whether the said breach was really the fault of Apple.
On the other hand, AT&T said that they were informed on Monday about the incident and that only the addresses and associated ICC-IDs were revealed and nothing that grave. By Tuesday they were already able to turn of the feature that allowed access to the addresses. The wireless carrier company also admitted only on the potential exposure of iPad ICC IDs and not to the total number of addresses or the particular persons affected. Apple on the other hand declined to make a comment.
Security Watch’s Larry Slitzer on his statement said that the exposure of several email addresses was nothing serious and that the whole thing was just an exaggeration.
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