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Feds charge professed white-hat hackers in iPad breach

Professed White Hat hackers face federal criminal charges for grabbing e-mail addresses of 114,000 AT&T 3G customers who use iPads. The breach took advantage of weaknesses in AT&Ts resubscription page for iPads to harvest the e-mails and ID numbers for the SIM cards in their iPads. Andrew Auernheimer has also been characterized as an Internet troll – someone who performs destructive or annoying acts via the Internet. The FBI has been aware of Aunheimer as a hacker and “self-proclaimed troll” since 2001.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126625/feds-charge-professed-white-hat-hackers-in-ipad-breach.html

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