AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/att-hacker-gets-3-years/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
03.18.13

A hacker charged with federal crimes for obtaining the personal data of more 
than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T’s publicly accessible website was sentenced 
on Monday to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

The judge handed down the sentence following a minor skirmish in the courtroom 
when the defendant, Andrew Auernheimer, aka Weev, was pinned and cuffed. 
Auernheimer was reportedly asked to hand the court a mobile phone he had with 
him during the hearing, and after handing it to his defense attorney instead, 
court agents cuffed him.

Andrew Auernheimer, 26, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was found guilty last 
November in federal court in New Jersey of one count of identity fraud and one 
count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization after he and a 
colleague created a program to collect information on iPad owners that had been 
exposed by a security hole in AT&T’s web site.

The two essentially wrote a program to send Get requests to the web site.

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