AT&T is aware that it made a mess of user privacy, when a a group of Hackers by the name of Goatse Security successfully exposed over 114,000 iPad 3G owners emails. This happened right when the WWDC 2010 was in full sway. The carrier has apologized its customers in a letter sent out to them earlier.
The hack was performed by the group that exploited a function on the AT&T website that had been crafted to ease login process for the iPad 3G owners. From the letter sent out to their customers:
…unauthorized computer “hackers” maliciously exploited a function designed to make your iPad log-in process faster by pre-populating an AT&T authentication page with the email address you used to register your iPad for 3G service. The self-described hackers wrote software code to randomly generate numbers that mimicked serial numbers of the AT&T SIM card for iPad – called the integrated circuit card identification (ICC-ID) – and repeatedly queried an AT&T web address. When a number generated by the hackers matched an actual ICC-ID, the authentication page log-in screen was returned to the hackers with the email address associated with the ICC-ID already populated on the log-in screen…
While AT&T did actually took a prompt action against the attack, it did however scar AT&T’s reputation. Especially given the fact that many a users were actually looking forward to a Verizon / Apple deal for the iPhone 4. The problem is still there, since the exposed emails can be used against the users; especially sent spam emails to their accounts.
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