{"id":65170,"date":"2012-11-21T07:55:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T05:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=65170"},"modified":"2012-11-21T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T12:00:08","slug":"hacker-convicted-for-ipad-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/65170-hacker-convicted-for-ipad-data-breach.html","title":{"rendered":"Hacker convicted for iPad data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal jury convicted a New York man on Tuesday of hacking into AT&T Inc<\/a> servers and stealing the email addresses and other personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc<\/a> iPad users, a U.S. attorney in New Jersey said.<\/p>\n

Andrew Auernheimer, 27, was convicted by a Newark, New Jersey, jury of one count of conspiracy to access the servers without permission, as well as one count of identity theft, said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.<\/p>\n

The defendant faces a maximum five years in prison and $250,000 fine on each count. A co-defendant, Daniel Spitler, pleaded guilty to the same charges in June 2011 and is awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Auernheimer and Spitler were affiliated with Goatse Security, a group of Internet “trolls” that tries to disrupt online content and services.<\/p>\n

According to the government, the men used an “account slurper” that was designed to match email addresses with “integrated circuit card identifiers” for iPad users, and which conducted a “brute force” attack to extract data about those users, who accessed the Internet through AT&T’s network.<\/p>\n

The authors of the slurper then provided stolen information to the website Gawker, which published an article naming well-known people whose emails had been compromised, including ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Tor Ekeland, a lawyer for Auernheimer, said his client was free on bail, and planned to appeal the verdict to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

“We disagree with the prosecutors’ interpretation of what constitutes unauthorized access to a computer under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,” Ekeland said in a phone interview. He called the prosecutors’ interpretation of that federal law “extremely expansive.”<\/p>\n

The trial lasted about one week, excluding a disruption related to Hurricane Sandy, and jurors deliberated for a couple of hours, Ekeland added.<\/p>\n

AT&T has partnered with Apple in the United States to provide wireless service on the iPad. After the hacking, it shut off the feature that allowed email addresses to be obtained.<\/p>\n

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