Gawker is reporting today that Apple had suffered their worst security breach in the company's history, just a few weeks after the lost next-generation prototype iPhone was found in a Redwood City, California bar.
Reportedly, there were 114,067 total email addresses found by the attackers from dozens on CEO's, military officials and top politicians, all of whom were using iPads.
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. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised.
Gawker, however, believes that there could have been confidential information taken from every iPad 3G that run on AT&T's network because of a major security hole.
Additional information that was taken is the user's ICC-ID (Integrated Circuit Card Identifier), which is used to identify the SIM card that is associated with a mobile device.
The report goes on to say that AT&T has fixed the major security issue in the past few days, but the people who have had their confidential information taken have not been told of it yet, until today. It does appear also that the issue is completely related to AT&T, and in no way Apple's fault.
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