It starts, dare to sniff it, it always makes me laugh, I experienced it at my expense recently, security and IT are two antagonistic words, ;) Finally, now everything is fine... but for how long?, defense up and running... Long live acronis true image, I'll tell you more about it later...
According to the site valleywag, pirates would have managed to get their hands on no less than 114.000 addresses mail and SIM identifiers associates of iPad owners. Discovered on Monday by AT&T, the flaw in the website allowed a group of experts to penetrate the site and recover thousands of identifiers. It was corrected the next day by the operator according to the telecom company, the problem would have been solved and an investigation was opened.
According to Ed Amoroso, AT&T's security manager, this flaw comes from a function created to facilitate the renewal of these subscribers. It was deactivated on Tuesday, the day after the discovery of the intrusion.
The operator is still reassuring. “At this point, there is no evidence that any further information has been shared. »
Among the most famous people the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, the secretary general of the White House Rahm Emanuel or the general manager of the New York Times Janet Robinson.
The hacker group, called "Goatse Security", claims to be behind the intrusion. They would have triggered a script on the AT&T site by falsifying their User Agent to pretend to be a iPad and thus identify the iPads connected to the mobile network.
Original article: BeGeek
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