‘Organized’ Hack Targets AT&T Wireless Subscribers

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‘Organized’ Hack Targets AT&T Wireless Subscribers

November 22nd, 2011 ipadoholic Leave a comment Go to comments

Hackers used automatic scripts to aim ATT wireless subscribers in an failed endeavor to rob data stored in their online accounts, firm officials said.

In an email sent to targeted subscribers, ATT warned of an “organized attempt” to break in to their accounts. The instructive was sent to reduction than 1 per cent of the company’s wireless subscribers, orator Mark Siegel told The Register . The firm sensitive the users “out of an bountiful of caution.”

If the book was able to keep apart from phone figures that were related to online accounts, ATT’s website might be configured in a way that puts subscriber privacy at risk. Last year, hackers performed the email addresses of 114,000 early adopters of Apple’s iPad by exploiting weaknesses in an ATT website.

Security advisors say login mechanisms on websites should never lapse blunder messages that show an email address, phone number, or user name is valid. Siegel declined to detailed on the assault or how ATT’s website responded to the assault script.

“No accounts were breached and the scrutiny is continuing to establish the source or vigilant of the endeavor to accumulate this information,” the matter said.