Hackers in the United States have obtained the email addresses of more than 114,000 owners of Apple's new iPads.
A Silicon Valley website says a shadowy group exploited a vulnerability at American telecom giant AT&T, which says it's now fixed.
Valleywag says the list includes the email addresses of business, political and military leaders like the New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and New York Times Co Chief Executive Janet Robinson
The website published the names of some on the list but not their full email addresses.
The iPad owners whose email addresses were compromised were subscribers to AT&T's 3G plan which provides connectivity to the touchscreen tablet computer from Apple.
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AT&T statement
In a statement, AT&T acknowledged there had been a data breach and issued an apology to customers who had been affected.
"AT&T was informed by a business customer on Monday of the potential exposure of their iPad ICC IDS," AT&T said.
"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 email addresses."
Valleywag said the AT&T breach also revealed the email addresses of iPad owners in companies such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley and staffers in the Pentagon, Senate, House of Representatives, Department of Justice, NASA and
Department of Homeland Security.
