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AT&T iPad hacker pleads guilty to stealing data

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 24th, 2011)

Daniel Spitler is facing up to 10 years in prison for his role in the theft of personal information from iPad 3G users on AT&T. Spitler was one of the men responsible for writing the iPad 3G Account Slurper that parsed the SIM card numbers of AT&T iPad 3G owners and used them to ...

Three sent to prison in China over iPad 2 leaks

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 15th, 2011)

A Chinese court has sentenced three people to prison for collaborating to steal information from Foxconn about the iPad 2 before it was unveiled to the public. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Shenzhen Bao'an People's Court found that the general manager of MacTop Electronics Company ...