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Second accused AT&T iPad hacker in plea talks

by Kelly Hodgkins Jul 29th 2011 at 10:00AM

Last month, Daniel Spitler pleaded guilty to hacking account information from AT&T 3G iPads and faces up to 10 years in prison. His alleged partner in crime, Andrew Auernheimer, is now reportedly negotiating a plea deal as well. Auernheimer's case is currently on hold during these negotiations.

Spitler and Auernheimer are responsible for writing an iPad 3G Account Slurper tool that parsed the SIM card numbers of AT&T iPad 3G owners and used them to retrieve email addresses from the carrier's website. They pair and their associated hacking group reportedly grabbed over 100,000 email records and brazenly flaunted their theft before being caught. The theft was particularly stinging as many of those records belonged to government officials and military personal.



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hmslamma

Hey, I know that EVERYBODY here has probalby thought about this but, I REALLY WANT AN IPAD 2...SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......... BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 04 2011 at 3:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
xxp84

Can you imagine serving several years in prison just because you thought you'd win some "hacker" cred by stealing email addresses from AT&T? I'm sure these guys just thought they'd pulled off something cool and were planning to have a great time laughing at how they "took down" big stupid AT&T.

Talk about a terrible decision.

July 30 2011 at 6:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt Jones

Really, TUAW? "Theft"? Sending a GET request to a web server is about as far from "theft" as you can possibly get, and you should be embarrassed to be propagating this sort of nonsense.

July 29 2011 at 10:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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withrowsp

Thef - Taking something that doesn't belong to you without permission. Is that what they did? Check

July 29 2011 at 11:51 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
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xxp84

Yeah, I agree with withrowsp. Just because AT&T forgot to lock the door, so to speak, that doesn't in any way change the legality of walking in and stealing the customers' data. It does mean AT&T should also be blamed, but stealing data is still wrong.

July 30 2011 at 6:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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