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AT&T iPad hacker files appeal over conviction, long sentence |
July 02, 2013
A U.S. man prosecuted for exposing a weakness in how AT&T handled the personal data of its iPad users filed an appeal on Monday of his conviction and 41-month sentence.Andrew Auernheimer, known as "weev," created an automated tool to extract the names and email addresses of 114,000 iPad 3G owners from AT&T's servers, which were used by customers to access their accounts. The information was later passed to the online news site Gawker.Auernheimer's case drew wide attention for his lengthy prison sentence, which his attorney Tor Ekeland said via email was at the high end for computer-related criminal cases.He was indicted in 2011 in federal court in New Jersey on two felony counts of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and fraud related to personal identification under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He was convicted after a five-day trial in November 2012.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043481/atandt-ipad-hacker-files-appeal-over-conviction-long-sentence.html#tk.rss_all
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