Although AT&T's unique website flop the Apple iPhone 4has formally sold . AsBoy Genius Report reported, and Engadget confirmed,AT&T

Customers who order for the iPhone 4 moving forward will receive their order depending on when the order is placed.

however, you weren't necessarily greeted with a quick pre-order process--rather, AT&T's website had a slide of technical issues that resulted in an lack of ability to process orders, and the exposure of personal information.


A number of customers were faced with an error message: "There was a problem with your request. For that we are experiencing a system error that prevents us from completing your request." Apple's new sell application, which was introduced earlier single purpose of making iPhone 4 orders very easy also failed, freezing on the "Processing" screen and eventually crashing.


Calling Apple's hotline wasn't any better the lines were so stopped with dissatisfied customers that Apple begin rejecting callers from its 1-800 number. According to AppleInsider, customers begin inquiry about to a recorded message from the Cupertino company's hotline that said: "Thank you for calling Apple. Due to extremely high call volumes, we are not capable to answer your call at this time. We say sorry for the trouble. Please try your call again later. We realize your business and look forward to serving you in the future."


consumers who had the time and resources to make a walk to their local AT&T seller found the situation unimproved. AT&T retailers notable access the ordering system either, so AT&T representatives took down customers' detail about their credit card number to reserve them a spot in line that's right, credit card detail just to havea spot in another line on when the iPhone 4 officially hits stores.


AT&T's unable to process orders was the least of its issues, however. According to Gizmodo, AT&T's website ended up displaying the personal detail of a number of customers between the pre-ordering process. An AT&T insider told Gizmodo that this "bug" was due to a "main fraud update that went wrong." According to Gizmodo, there have been at least three accounted cases and several reader cases where customers trying to log into their AT&T account finished up being taken to another user's AT&T account.


In terms, personal detail ,addresses, phone calls, bills, etc was being displayed to totally casual people. It's unclear as to whether the compromised accounts belonged only to other people trying to pre-order and iPhone 4, or to random AT&T customers.


This information of breached privacy comes just a someday after AT&T's now-infamous iPad security issue, in nearly 144,000 iPad users' private email addresses were exposed.


On this place AT&T or Apple couldn’t made any public statements about the iPhone 4 ordering disaster