MobileMe mixup: Address book snafu exposes personal data to strangers?

Have there been any updates on this?

I was seeing this problem on my expired account the other day too, but it's not happening any more. Looks like Apple heard your crys and fixed whatever was the problem.
For wat its worth, I have had really good luck with MobileMe. I really love that all my contacts stay synced up between my 4 computers and iPhone. Sure I back up my contacts manually every week or so and I have time machine running on my home computer, but you would be stupid to not take care of your own data and expect Apple, Google, Yahoo, or anyone else to do a better job. It says right in the terms of service for MobileMe that they don't promise to not lose your data. And for 27 cents a day,*I* still think it's worth it and I am going to update my credit card info and renew.
just my 2 cents.

Next time, before making it public, email a short and to the point description of the problem, along with screenshots, to product-security@apple.com

Add this at the top:

I will not disclose this information further until 10PM UTC, October 16, 2009.

Should you not have responded to me by this time, I will share this information with other experts in the field, appropriate mailing lists, and potentially the press.

The people reading this address will respond within a few hours. Encrypt your message using their PGP key for added value, but it's not necessary (I usually do not encrypt my messages).

I'm glad you made this public. I'm sure the additional exposure you give this issue will help light a fire under Apple's butt to get the problem fixed.

They haven't discontinued MobileMe...why, again?

I think this article and the above responses are uncovering the simple truth that MobileMe is completely unsafe as well as riddled with bugs.

I find it incredible that a company like Apple can't be bothered to put the necessary resources into making MobileMe a satisfactory service. Surely they are capable of doing so? It just ruins their reputation.

Um.. the exploding breasts are pretty alarming too ;)

last week I lost all the content of my public folder in iDisk and it was replaced with pictures and music of someone else. I online chatted with the help desk to resolve it, and they claimed it was not a problem on their end, but that someone must have mistakenly thought it was their account and manually did all this one file at a time through the browser. I didn't buy that, as there were many folders and files that no one would upload, like iTunes XML files and such. Clearly somehow iDisk paths and permissions got messed up. I thought nothing of it until I started reading about all these other mix ups. I love MobileMe when it works, but not at the risk of data loss and exposure. They've got one year to fix it before I have to renew.

This also happened to me. While renewing my wifes account we were able to access another random users data. However we were able to get tech support on the phone and they resolved.

I do, I figure that if you're not using them for what they were designed for (nursing infants) then you don't need them and shouldn't be inflating them for no reason. Like an overinflated tire they will pop similarly. Do you want to be the unsuspecting victim of an exploding Breast. Lose an eye just once and you'll appreciate what I'm telling you. Heed my warning, Don't look at em too closely, it could be your last look ever.
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Shakes head sadly - whoever is running MM needs to get canned if this is a legit bug. Apple needs to get over their market arrogance on this issue and admit they are craptastic at trying to run an enterprise level web service. They are going to lose major consumer confidence if they don't plug this hole fast and make amends to their user base.