AT&T issued an official response to Gawker about the security breach and AT&T really does not seem to care that the information leaked was of any substance. I am glad to see AT&T does not value email addresses; aren’t they the company who’s CEO threatens customers with legal action for emailing him?

Below is AT&T’s response. Take it for what it is worth. A generic PR statement. to try and make you feel better about exposing your personal information.   There are reports that the ICC ID could be used to locate an iPad device with help from additional databases.

“AT&T was informed by a business customer on Monday of the potential exposure of their iPad ICC IDS. The only information that can be derived from the ICC IDS is the e-mail address attached to that device.

This issue was escalated to the highest levels of the company and was corrected by Tuesday; and we have essentially turned off the feature that provided the e-mail addresses.

The person or group who discovered this gap did not contact AT&T.

We are continuing to investigate and will inform all customers whose e-mail addresses and ICC IDS may have been obtained.

We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed this problem, we apologize to our customers who were impacted.”

 [vua Gawker]