There’s a number of topics I tossed around today, but I finally settled on this one because it personally hits home. When it came out, I thought the iPad was so awesome. I wanted one so bad. I had to have one- enthralled type of deal. But then the reviews followed, and then the new iPhone did as well. I fell in love yet again. So I’m not a big tablet computer fan, but that thing was seriously awesome when they demoed it. But you didn’t come here to read about tech stuff. So down to business. Hacking.
Ms. Suzanne Choney over at MSNBC had this to say, “Prominent users of Apple’s new iPad 3G, including military and government officials as well as media personalities and celebrities, had their e-mail addresses hacked by a group that shared its findings with online publication Valleywag to point out security flaws in AT&T’s Web servers.”
Who was among these victims? Well there was ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to name a few.
But what’s more is that the group who did the hacking, that is called Goatse, have gone after other big companies as well. They have exposed real security vulnerabilities in Firefox, Safari, and have drawn attention to flaws in Amazon’s rating system.
Still the facts are the facts- This is a huge embarrassment for Apple. 114,000 customers accounts were compromised in the act.
This kind of breech has happened and still people scoff at the online identity theft protection, still people refuse to get theft reports, or make any attempts to lock credit in a timely manner when a threat does exist, still merchants do not social security verify prior to opening lines of credit.
This story is just a matter of email snagging. The first stage of online identity theft, if you will. That itself is not seen as a major problem. But the threat isn’t going away and the behavior of the consumer has not changed.
*By The way, the aftermath of the “At&t iPad Crisis” can be read about here.
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