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March 19, 2013 05:17 pm GMT
Yesterday, Andrew "weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison, three years of probation, and restitution of $73,000 after being convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges. His actions had revealed a security flaw in AT&T's user data base.In essence, weev added a number to the end of a URL on AT&T's public database and realized that he was moving from one user's information to another. He aggregated the data and gave it to Gawker, making 114,000 iPad 3G owners data public.
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/6nzJ3Y__yL8/
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Yesterday, Andrew "weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison, three years of probation, and restitution of $73,000 after being convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges. His actions had revealed a security flaw in AT&T's user data base.In essence, weev added a number to the end of a URL on AT&T's public database and realized that he was moving from one user's information to another. He aggregated the data and gave it to Gawker, making 114,000 iPad 3G owners data public. Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/6nzJ3Y__yL8/
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