Iphone 5 - anyone having huge cellular data usage problem on ATT

I upgraded from Iphone 3g to Iphone 5. Over a period of last year, My average monthly data usage is approx 400MB (total less than 5GB in a year). AT&T is reporting that my Iphone 5 data usage crossed 6GB in a 3 day period . I called AT&T and have to listen to LTE, Iphone 5 and Multiple app running in background  non-sense as an explanation for 6GB data usage over a 3 day period. My Itune and app store does not download over cellular network. Even though Iphone 5 automatically creates an Icloud account during initial setup, I am not connected to Icloud on Iphone and never even logged on to Icloud account. IOS 6 setting for sending data diagnostic over cellular network is set to no.
I feel this is same bug which Verizon user are reporting and ATT is not commenting on it till now. How can I consume over 6GB worth of data over a 3 day period which is more than my total data usage for a year. That is equivalent of streaming hd video (approx 300 MB per hour) for 20 hours.
CNN link to Iphone 5 data bug story
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/01/technology/iphone-​5-data-overage/index.html
Anyone is having similiar problems?

There have been lots of discussions about this particular topic
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19398807#19398807
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19780554#19780554
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19802173#19802173
and the list goes on.
Apple has zero control over what AT&T does in regards to their plans for data, their charges for data, or anything to do with their service that you pay for every month

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