AT&T customers logging into their accounts to pre-order the Apple iPhone 4 reported that they were given access to the account information of other customers. Despite entering their own usernames and passwords, the AT&T system would take them to another user’s account, according to gadget blog Gizmodo, which broke the news. Some users said when…
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Hacker Who Exposed AT&T iPad Security Breach Arrested On Felony Possession Charges
Were the Goatse crew wearing white hats, grey hats, or black hats when they exposed the iPad/ATT breach recently? John Brownlee says they did the right thing and comments on the arrest of one of them following the execution of a search warrant related to the breach disclosure: One of the members of the Goatse…
iPad Breach Update: More Personal Data Was Potentially At Risk
Kevin Mahaffey says that there was more personal information at risk in the recent iPad/AT&T breach than originally revealed: The iPad security breach last week potentially exposed the emails of 114,000 AT&T customers, but that is not the only information that could have been discovered by clever hackers. iPad owners will be surprised to know…
AT&T Explains iPad Security Breach
Nick Bilton recaps the breach and posts the e-mail sent by AT&T to customers about the breach: On Sunday evening, AT&T sent an e-mail message to owners of the Apple 3G iPad notifying them of a security breach that was publicized early last week. The message, sent by Dorothy Attwood, a senior vice president and…
NY: Cashier at Bellmore Payless Store Accused of Identity Theft
A Long Island shoe store employee is accused of stealing security information from customers’ credit cards and making duplicate cards. Police say the cashier at a Bellmore Payless store used a “skimming” device to scan the magnetic strip of security information from the credit cards of 11 customers. Police say he used the cards to…
FBI to investigate AT&T iPad data breach
Claudine Beaumont reports: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that it will be examining the circumstances surrounding a security breach of AT&T’s network that exposed the email addresses of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad owners. “The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation to address this potential cyberthreat,”…