A group of international hackers were able to break into the AT&T website and get the information over approximatley 114,000 iPad users.

The breach could have affected all iPad users on the AT&T 3G network, but it looks like just a portion of the users were compromised.

There were some pretty public people who’s accounts were broken into, including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanual, famous TV anchor Diane Sawyer, NY City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Hollywood movie producer Harvey Wienstein.

The problem is completely related to the security of the AT&T site, and really was not because of the Apple hardware.  It stemmed from a user authentication process, and this is process if present in many basic websites.

So what this tells me – even the largest of companies overlook security risk, which can have serious consequences.

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