If a Web site leaves sensitive data hanging out in the open, can you still be accused of hacking when you grab it? The answer is hell, yeah! But lots of people still do it. Two men, Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer, charged in the high profile hack of a server holding the account information of VIP iPad owners. The server held the device identifiers and e-mail addresses for more than 100,000 VIPs including journalists, politicians, celebrities and members of the military.
Source: https://threatpost.com/spotlight-woeful-web-security-ipad-hacking-case-012111/74870/