Technology
New York mayor shrugs off iPad security leak
- From: AP
- Fri Jun 11 08:54:08 EST 2010
NEW York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was among those whose name and email address was exposed because of a security vulnerability with phone carrier AT&T.
But the billionaire media mogul shrugged it off overnight and said he didn't understand all the fuss.
"It shouldn't be pretty hard to figure out my email address," Mr Bloomberg said.
"If you send me an email and I don't want to read it, I don't open it. To me it wasn't that big of a deal."
AT&T said yesterday a security weak spot exposed the email addresses — but nothing else — of more than 100,000 iPad users.
Only users who signed up for AT&T's 3G wireless internet service were affected.
The problem had to do with the way AT&T's website prompted iPad users to log onto their AT&T accounts.
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