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Title: AT&T hacked, iPad 3G owners email addresses harvested
Post by: HCK on June 10, 2010, 07:00:10 am
AT&T hacked, iPad 3G owners email addresses harvested
      




Hackers found a way in to AT&T’s iPad 3G registry and, using a brute-force attack based on unique ICC-ID numbers, managed to pull down corresponding email addresses for those users — who include members of the US military, executive branch, and media companies.

AT&T has since closed the vulnerability and issued the following statement:


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