FBI Investigating iPad E-Mail Leaks

CWmike writes "The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the leak of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad user e-mail addresses. Hackers belonging to a group called Goatse obtained the e-mail addresses after uncovering a web application on AT&T's website that returned an iPad user's e-mail address when it was sent specially written queries. After writing an automated script to repeatedly query the site, they downloaded the addresses, and then handed them over to Gawker.com. Now the FBI is trying to figure out whether this was a crime. US law prohibits the unauthorized accessing of computers, but it is unclear whether the script that the Goatse group used violated the law, said Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 'The question is, when you do an automated test like this, [are you] getting any type of unauthorized access or not,' she said. If it turns out the data in question was not misused, it is unlikely that federal prosecutors will press charges, she added."

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No relation

[Anonymous Coward]

"The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation into addressing the potential cyberthreat," said Lindsay Godwin

Fucking Nazis.

Re:No relation

[Spad]

The rarely seen and difficult to pull off Reverse Godwin?

sheesh

[Izabael_DaJinn]

I've always had problems with my ipads leaking

Re:sheesh

[yincrash]

something something fcc-mandated wings

Re:sheesh

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you have your products mixed up. Easy mistake to make, given what a cunt Steve Jobs is.

Re:sheesh

[commodoresloat]

Well given the name of the hacker group, one figures that with a hole that large no ipad will be big enough to prevent leakage

Ha ha, I love the genius of the hackers' name

[apparently]

Hackers belonging to a group called Goatse obtained the e-mail addresses after uncovering a web application on AT&T's website that returned an iPad user's e-mail address when it was sent specially written queries

My heart goes out to the poor journalists heading out to the great google in order to get their big scoop on goatse.

Re:Ha ha, I love the genius of the hackers' name

[arkenian]

My heart goes out to the poor journalists heading out to the great google in order to get their big scoop on goatse.

I'm just trying to imagine what the first story to try to describe the origin of the name will say...

Re:Ha ha, I love the genius of the hackers' name

[Anonymous Coward]

My heart goes out to the poor journalists heading out to the great google in order to get their big scoop on goatse.

I'm just trying to imagine what the first story to try to describe the origin of the name will say...

Like a giant gaping security flaw...

Re:Ha ha, I love the genius of the hackers' name

[mwvdlee]

There are black hat hackers, there are white hat hackers and now there are brown hat hackers.

I applaud this hacker group

[Nicky G]

No, not for revealing a potentially dangerous flaw in AT&T security. What-evs.

I heard and read the word Goatse more today in the mainstream media than all points of my life added together, and I can only imagine how many lives were ruined by the ensuring Google searches! Hahahahahah!!!!!!!

Re:I applaud this hacker group

[inode_buddha]

I've long fantasized about renting a billboard along the I-90 and putting www.goatse.cx on it. No image or anything, just the URL.

ole

[britneys 9th husband]

AT&T needs to fix this wide, gaping hole that has been stretched open on their website before more iPad email addresses are exposed.

Re:Not you too, Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

brown-hat maybe?

Stay classy, Reuters

[l00sr]

Dare I say Reuters has figured it out, with this story image.