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If you were an early adopter of the 3G-embedded version of the iPad ― as in, you bought it on Day One? ― there's a chance that your e-mail address and your iPad's ICC-ID number were exposed by a group of hackers who exploited a weakness on AT&T's website. How bad is the breach, and should you be worried? Read on.

First,John Galliano, a little background. Gawker broke the news late Wednesday that a group of hackers going by the name of Goatse Security managed to grab the information of more than 114,000 iPad 3G owners ― including, as it turns out, such high-profile early adopters as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and maybe even White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel ― by exploiting a wonky script on the AT&T website.

Basically, by hitting the script with an ICC-ID number (the unique identifier of an iPad 3G's SIM card), the hackers were able to harvest the e-mail address associated with the account,Iceberg, according to Gawker. By methodically firing off one ICC-ID after another, the Goatse Security hackers managed to dredge up the e-mail addresses of one early iPad 3G adopter after another, including the CEOs of the New York Times, Time magazine and Dow Jones, as well as staffers at NASA and the Department of Defense.

Not good, right? Lucky for us, the hackers at Goatse Security seem more interested in revealing security holes than in exploiting them, and the group shopped around its findings to a variety of news organizations Sunday, according to Forbes, and Gawker bit. (Gawker, by the way is owned by Gawker Media, the same company that owns Gizmodo and paid for Gizmodo's iPhone leak. Gawker says it didn't pay for the iPad security breach story.)

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