Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

[Watchman]

Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed



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.

 

[zhihau]

Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

let's see... iExposed, iLeaked & iWon

 

[Char_Azn]

Well only Apple fanboys are in their own dreamland about the myth that Apple products are any safer then M$ products. They're not. The reason why M$ gets all the shit is because they have such a huge market share, it makes a hellavulot more sense to make malware and viruses for the Windows platform vs a Mac.

The fact is Mac products are no more safer then Windows product. Apple have been enjoying security via obscurity. Now that it is getting a bit more popular, it's feeling a bit of the heat.

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