Hacker Weev Gets Sentence Thrown Out

Infamous Internet troll and "iPad hacker" Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer will get out of jail early, after a circuit judge vacated his sentence on Friday.

More than a year ago, Auernheimer was found guilty and sentenced to 3 and half years in prison for accessing an AT&T public server in 2010, and obtaining 114,000 email addresses of iPad owners

Auernheimer then shared the database with Gawker, and the feds charged him with identity theft and hacking crimes

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia threw out his sentence, arguing that prosecutors were wrong to charge him in New Jersey. Auernheimer accessed the AT&T server while living in Arkansas, his alleged accomplice was living in San Francisco, and the servers they accessed were located in Dallas and Atlanta. But prosecutors charged him in New Jersey — and it has never been clear why. Read more...