The AT&T company has found a gap in the iPad security system. The owners of the latest Apple’s gadget have sent the corresponding notification about the leakage of e-mail addresses. The group of hackers announced that it was able to crack users’ devices connected via the authorized wireless access. AT&T claims that the given vulnerability has already been eliminated.
According to Gawker, the hackers got the personal information of 114,000 iPad owners. Among them there are dozens of managers of leading companies, show biz celebrities, politicians. In particular, according to the preliminary information, the e-mail addresses of top-managers of New York Times Company, Dow Jones, Condе Nast, Viacom, Time Warner, News Corporation, HBO, Hearst have come to the hands of the hackers. The account of Chief of the biggest helicopter squadron B-1 William Aldridge has been also cracked.
AT&T is an exclusive partner of Apple. One of the business partners had reported the vulnerability in the security system several days before the incident.
Probably, in future iPad application developers will offer in their products additional functions for protecting personal information.