According to the Reuters today's news, the email addresses of more than 114,000 ipad users were disclosed therefore FBI started to investigate about this cyber threat.Gawker website was the first reporter.The breach of personal information happened when hackers group who named itself Goatse Security obtained a list of email addresses of ipad owners from AT&T ipad subscriber data. The list included email addresses of celebrities, chief executives and politicians.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and film mogul Harvey Weinstein are other victims of intrusion.
AT&T , has exclusive U.S right to carry both iphone and ipad ,accepted the breach but said the problem had solved.
FBI spokesman also said FBI has acknowledged the security breach and started its investigation.
ipad is a successful device in whole the world and ipad launched in April, has sold about 2million around the world. Critics believe this current issue do not have any affect to the popularity of ipad.
Reference of news:
www.reuters.com
It was shocking for me when I heard about this but they couldnt access very private information. As apple owes one of the biggest database infrastructure in its industry and it is almost impossible to break in. However some may be very concern about those stolen IDs.
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ReplyDeleteThis kind of problems may occur for any company or device. Apple is not an exception. i think it would not be No.1 forever.
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