FBI Now Involved in Hacked iPad Case

Remember the other day when AT&T s**t the bed something awful with iPad security? It seems that when presidential advisers and military officials (I still get a kick out of the thought of a fully decorated General toting an iPad around base) are involved in a security breach, it raises a few eyebrows at the FBI. The Bureau is investigating the security breach that affected some 114,000 iPad accounts.

The agency has contacted Gawker Media, the outlet that first reported the issue on Wednesday, and has asked them to maintain any communications and records pertaining to the story.

Goatse Security, the group behind the breach has explained its motivations in a blog post, stating that it accessed the information to publicize the vulnerabilities and has destroyed the email information garnered from the breach. An excerpt from the post reads:

… Do you really think corporate privacy breaches should stay indefinitely secret? I don’t. If you’re potentially on a list of exploit targets because someone has an iPad Safari vulnerability and they scraped you in a gigantic list of emails it is best that you are informed of that sooner than later (after you’ve been successfully exploited)….All data was gathered from a public webserver with no password, accessible by anyone on the Internet. There was no breach, intrusion, or penetration, by any means of the word…

Your iPads are safer now because of us.

[via Gawker] [Photo: cliff1066™]