The FBI has opened up an investigation into a security breach that exposed the e-mails of over 114,000 iPad 3G customers.
Yesterday, a group known as Goatse Security provided the media blog Gawker with a list of 114,067 email addresses of iPad 3G customers. The e-mails were obtained by Goatse Security through a security loophole that allowed it to return countless e-mails associated with ICC-IDs -- the unique identifier of the SIM card in an iPad 3G.
The FBI told The Wall Street Journal, Main Justice and other media organizations that it is "aware of these possible computer intrusions" and is in the early stages of an investigation into the security breach.
While FBI investigations and security breaches are nothing to brush off, most believe that it's unlikely that any real harm was done. No other information beyond the ICC-IDs and e-mail addresses were exposed, and it's unlikely that someone could use an ICC-ID alone to attack a user.