Brisk sales for the original wi-fi iPad had promised to turn the 3G model into a similar profit machine.
And it will do so at a pivotal moment, with the iPad 3G early in its sales cycle. In addition to complicating the AT&T-Apple relationship, the breach will also likely unnerve customers thinking of buying iPads that connect to AT&T's cellular network. Given the lock-in and the tight coupling of the iPad with AT&T's cellular data network, Apple has a pronounced responsibility to patrol the network vendors it chooses to align and share customer data with. iPad 3G customers have no choice in mobile carriers - AT&T has an exclusive lock, at least for now. This is particularly the case given that U.S. The slip up appears to be AT&T's fault at the moment, and it will complicate the company's already fraught relationship with Apple.Īlthough the security vulnerability was confined to AT&T servers, Apple bears responsibility for ensuring the privacy of its users, who must provide the company with their email addresses to activate their iPads. For a device that has been shipping for barely two months, and in its cellular configuration for barely one, the compromise is a rattling development. ICC-ID stands for integrated circuit card identifier and is used to identify the SIM cards that associate a mobile device with a particular subscriber.ĪT&T closed the security hole in recent days, but the victims have been unaware, until now. The specific information exposed in the breach included subscribers' email addresses, coupled with an associated ID used to authenticate the subscriber on AT&T's network, known as the ICC-ID. A call to Rahm Emanuel's office at the White House has not been returned. We contacted Apple for comment but have yet to hear back. 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. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City,…
It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 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. They-and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet-could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. Apple has suffered another embarrassment.
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