Hackers Harvested The Email Addresses Of Apple's I-Pad Users

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Hackers Harvested The Email Addresses Of Apple's I-Pad Users

14th June 2010

A site, which has revealed the information and details of the email addresses of Apple's I-Pad users has been blocked by, the telephone company of US called AT&T. The information of high profile people has also been disclosed in this attempt. The reports have said that contact details of Chief of Staff of White House, Rahm Emanuel have also been disclosed. Hackers call themselves as Goatse Security and they have revealed this flaw and shared personal data and information of the I-pad`s users, with Gawker Media.

According to the experts, there has been no disclosure and lost of critical information. According to AT&T, then firm is going to send notification to all the users of I-pad, whose email addresses might have been accessed by the hackers. The company has said that the privacy of all the customers is its prime concern.

In this statement, the company has also apologized to all its customers, who have been affected. It is believed that all the users of I-pad, who live outside US, have not been impacted. And only those users are impacted in US, who have signed up for the 3G services of AT&T. It is believed that this is going to be fixed very soon and the users will start enjoying the services once again, in the most comfortable and secured way.