Remember early June? Summer nights, trendy flip flops, drinks on restaurant patios, etc.? June 10th shattered all those fuzzy feelings with news of a massive security breach affecting iPad 3G owners. “Shattered” might be a bit overdramatic, but let’s just go with it in the interest of moving the story along.
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Take the phone off the hook, send the kids to Grandma’s, and light some aromatherapy candles as you prepare to hunker down for a weekend of iPad modding. If you want to stuff a Verizon 3G connection into your iPad, that is.
Assuming you have the chops to crack open your iPad, remove AT&T’s 3G module, and solder the innards of a …
Gawker is reporting that a recent vulnerability on AT&T’s network exposed the e-mail addresses associated with what they believe to be 114,000 iPad 3G owners’ user accounts.
According to the article:
“The specific information exposed in the breach included subscribers’ email addresses, coupled with an associated ID used to
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The newly-available 3G iPad is nearly identical to the standard iPad except for a $130 price premium and the ability to connect to AT&T’s cellular data network. Monthly plans range from $15 for 250 megabytes of data to $30 for unlimited data with no long-term contract. So is the 3G iPad worth the extra $130 and, if so, which data plan …
Just a quick note for those of you who pre-ordered the iPad 3G in the US, we now have a confirmed release date of April 30. Those of you who didn’t pre-order can purchase a 3G model starting at 5PM on the same day.
• 16GB retails for $629
• 32GB retails for $729
• 64GB retails for $829
• 250MB/month for $14.99 from AT&T (no …
