FBI Probes on AT&T Breaching Incident

Federal Bureau of Investigation is now probing on AT&T after the latest breaching incident which exposes a list of emails of high profile iPAd early owners to include in the 144,000 addresses the hackers retrieve from an ICC-ID. Though FBI through its spokeswoman Katherine Schweit is not giving specifics on the case after reports of the probe appeared on the Wall Street Journal.

The breaching happened when a group of hackers dubbed as “Goatse Security” accessed the information through a script on the telecoms website and forwarded the data to Gawker, who published a biting depiction of the incident. AT&T then sealed the flaw after one of its subscribers informs them regarding the vulnerabilities. With the ICC-ID’s on iPads 3G, hackers were able to authenticate clients on AT&T network. Though other possibilities of to hack further within the network was limited using the ICC-ID.

According to Gawkers expose, the list acquired by the hackers includes military men, U.S. government officials, journalist, NASA, DHS, FCC, and FAA. To name a few, subscribers who appeared to be White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Times Co. (NYT) CEO Janet Robinson including some others individuals whom all are Gmails users and early adapters of Apples iPad 3G through its carrier AT&T.

Though it not sure where the investigation will lead, but speculations are now pouring like rain to “who is to blame on the incident?” “was is AT&T or Apples negligence?”

Yet, a few things for sure the early iPad 3G should be thankful to the incident. One, it only give hackers a long list of the high profile emails ad (expecting their addresses could be sold to spammers), two, AT&T and Apple discovered the potential flaw in the system.