Information Madness

A security breach exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. The breach, 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.

But you can not call it a breach, infact it was a poorly designed application that leaked hundreds of thousands of email addresses.

Goatse Security, named for the famous Internet shock image, wrote the script to harvest e-mail addresses by providing ICC-ID numbers (integrated circuit card identifier, a number that associates a SIM card with a subscriber) and parsing the returned e-mail address.

High profile users from the list of harvested e-mail addresses.

Praetorian Perfect has a script that actually spit out all the email address of popular A-List people's email address. That is a big shame for Apple & AT&T to have such a big security hole in their app and device.