The hack that stole the email addresses of iPad users wasn't even a hack in the truest sense, security experts are saying today. The Goatse Security team that pulled off the feat simply overpowered bad software. The story broke yesterday that a leak in AT&T's security had given away the email addresses of more than 100,000 people, including some of the famous and influential who were first to adopt the tablet—Diane Sawyer, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and even White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
The specific information exposed in the breach included subscribers' email addresses, coupled with an associated ID used to authenticate the subscriber on AT&T's network, known as the ICC-ID. ICC-ID stands for integrated circuit card identifier and is used to identify the SIM cards that associate a mobile device with a particular subscriber [Gawker].
The Praetorian Security Group, which got a copy of the script ...
