Celebrities hey?
Having your email address disclosed doesn't make you vulnerable to phishing attacks. Being a complete clot makes you vulnerable to phishing attacks.
Amusing security attack there too.
AT&T has exposed the email addresses of more than 114,000 early adopters of Apple's iPad, a security breach that could make some of the world's most elite celebrities and executives vulnerable to phishing attacks, Gawker reports. According to an article published Wednesday, the vulnerability in AT&T's website was exploited by …
Whether the breach is sourced from Apple or AT&T... it is still Apple's fault for signing on with a crap network.
The reason for that, like all of Apples many many problems, goes back to Apple's control freak issue. AT&T was in such a bad place that they were willing to give Apple tons of control that successful carriers like Verizon and Sprint were not.
... nothing, unless someone/something has a look now and then. "By writing a script that bombarded the site with thousands of possible ICC-ID numbers", I would assume (ahem, must) from one, or few, IP addresses. Nobody wants to pay a monkey to sit and watch logs, but me thinks a fairly simple bit of scripting would have done the trick here. Hanging an out-facing front door in the DMZ, and not looking for inevitable bits of action from knockers, is a fail.
It's a bummer for these elite folks, or sumfink, yadda...can't bring myself to care... blerg.
WOOT! Congratulations to all you EARLY ADOPTERS! What do you blokes expext out of product(s) (iPad, iPhone, iWhatever - this is NOT limited to Apple "i"Products) that hits the market for the first time.
Always want to be the first one with the "kool gadgets". Well, you reap what you sow. ALWAYS, ALWAYS wait for the bugs and issues to be addressed and remedied. Like a bunch of lemmings you all are. OBTW, I am an "APPLE FAN" but I know better to at least wait for Rev.2
Now all your family, friends and business associates can thank you for taking part (albeit invulentarily) in not protecting their contact information plus any other "undisclosed" issues.
You think AT&T needs a swift kick in the "nads" by bannig together and boycotting their service. OMG! How will I survive life without an iPhone or iPad (being fecetious). Only consumers have the power to force changes but WE all allow the tails to wag tha dogs.
Im completely Bias and hate apple (and windows to a slighly lesser extent) so I laugh at all the fanboi's that ran out and got their new electronic wet dream. I do agree with the fact this could have happened to any new kit tho, just so happens to be AT&T with links to apple.
Righty, im off back into my underground cave! tata for now
Their website ( http://security.goatse.fr/ I've not been there, so click at your own risk. If you don't know what Goatse is, do NOT click any link containing that word) contains information stating that they are a subsidiary of a (in)famous internet trolling group, the GNAA (Gay N*ggers Association of America). They're widely active on Slashdot and elsewhere, posting comments which appear to be genuine posts which infrequently make references to homosexuality or black people out of context, just for the sake of getting some laughs.
This may be one of the most successful trolls that they've every pulled.