AT&T Breached Exposing 144k iPad Owners.

AT&T was informed by a business customer on Monday of the potential exposure of their iPad ICC ID’s. The only information that can be derived from the ICC ID’s is the e-mail attached to that device.

This issue was escalated to the highest levels of the company and was corrected by Tuesday; and we have essentially turned off the feature that provides the e-mail addresses.

The person or group who discovered this gap did not contact AT&T.

We are continuing to investigate and will inform all customers whose e-mail addresses and ICC ID’s may have been obtained. At this point, there is no evidence that any other customer information was shared.

We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed this problem, we apologize to our customer who were impacted”

Official statement from AT&T after its website was hacked allowing hackers to retrieve email add of some iPads owners, including top US military and government officials and a few celebrity to include the list.

The incident happened, when hackers dubbed as “Goatse Securities” (also known for exposing website flaws of other website such as Firefox, Safari and its notable find Amazones’ flaws in its community ranking system) able to collect data by a script over AT&T website associating it with a SIM integrated circuit card identifiers of the ICC-ID, on the 3G version of Apples (AAPL) new tablet device.

A mere 144,000 iPad users were exposed along with its email addresses. To include on the list are, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Times Co. (NYT) CEO Janet Robinson and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel – after which the group notified AT&T to secure the breach.

But AT&T refused to admit the breaching incident, but actually stated that it was a customer who informed the breach and not Goatse. The only thing that was compromised by the incident though is email addresses (which potentially can be sold to spammers) of some users that we’re attached to the ICC-ID.

AT&T who faced previous scrutiny after a bad service with Apples’ gadget is again facing turmoil with the breaching incident.

The breaching incident (as reports gathered) followed weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar.