Glitches and bugs, gotta love them. The latest big glitch story broken by Gawker, was a glitch in AT&T’s site which revealed 114,000 email addresses of iPad 3G users. While AT&T did manage to take care of the glitch, iPad users only found about the data breach when the story was published online. The full story and details on prominent names affected can be found on Gawker.
Here’s what AT&T told Gawker about the incident:
“AT&T was informed by a business customer on Monday of the potential exposure of their iPad ICC IDS. The only information that can be derived from the ICC IDS is the e-mail address attached to that device.
This issue was escalated to the highest levels of the company and was corrected by Tuesday; and we have essentially turned off the feature that provided the e-mail addresses.
The person or group who discovered this gap did not contact AT&T.
We are continuing to investigate and will inform all customers whose e-mail addresses and ICC IDS may have been obtained.
We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed this problem, we apologize to our customers who were impacted.”
At least it was better than saying “oops” right?
[High Five to Ryan Tate]
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