App store login remembered after factory reset

A friend gave me his Ipad 2 which he had just reset to default factory settings.
I turned it on and started going through the process of language setting , location etc and skipping the registration, I was amazed to see that when I opened the app store, there was my Apple login name. ( Not his but mine ! ) .
How could this happen ?
It's not a problem but I'm facinated how it could have happened .
Can the device have picked it up from the wireless network ?
I do have several other apple devices including a MBA and iphone and another Ipad but how could the login have been retrieved from them ?
Amazed !!

Hopefully, you saved a copy of that ill-designed installer which deletes itself during the installationi process, necessitating wasting resource DLing it over and over again. Sheer madness and toatlly anit-green in behavior.

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