Ipad2 hacked?! Mysterious iMessage conversation between unknown persons on my iPad

I have owned my iPad 2 since last sept. it is basically my computer and with me almost all of the time.
I do not own an iPhone.
The ipad is pass code locked.
Until today I have never used the iMessage app. Not opened it.
It did not indicate I had any unread messages, for what I thought are obvious reasons.
I opened it for the first time today to message a friend.
I found a conversation already on my iPad. Between unknown persons. Talking about smoking something and using the n word a lot. The number from the device NOT my iPad is totally unfamiliar. Nowhere on an contact list, phone log, email, etc. when I contacted this person to ask who they were, they were coy, would not tell me, and seemed utterly unconcerned that a stranger had just read their conversation.
Also, imessege claimed the conversation had been read on the date it was sent, back in March.
Again, I have never even opened this app until today.
This iPad has not been repaired or out of my possession or used by others at all.
I also don't live with anyone who speaks in this manner. The diction is just not right. Nor anyone who smokes anything of any kind. My partner and I are too old for that ****.
Furthermore, the date and time for the conversation were for March 19th in the early afternoon. I know exactly where I was. I was at home. ON MY IPAD. I even have some writing saved on that day that would have been from around that time in the day. It's an east bay number, but I live in sf AND, at that time, my iPad number had a Kentucky number attached to it (I only got it changed to a local area code earlier this month).
This is pretty scary. Please tell me I am missing something and this is no big deal and explain to me how. Because this looks bad. It looks to me that two people discussing drugs used my iPad to port a conversation about it and that is really, really, really disturbing.

The feature really doesn't work very well yet. Most likely a future update will fix it or at least make it more obvious why it doesn't behave consistently.
For what it's worth, after following the caller ID instructions that you have tried, it took about a day for syncing to start working but some conversations and messages still never show up on my iPad.
Not much we can do but wait for iOS 5.1 I'm afraid. No doubt apple are aware of the issue at this point.

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