Goatse Security Hacker Pleads Guilty to AT&T Breach
A California man who helped write the malicious code behind a breach of AT&T’s computer servers has admitted to conspiring to hack into the servers, steal information about iPad subscribers and publicize the crime, the FBI’s Newark division said. Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized [...]
The website of a hacker group whose members exposed a vulnerability in AT&T’s site for 120,000 iPad customers was hacked on Tuesday, according to media reports. ZDNet UK reported that for at least a few hours, an obscenity-laden message on the Goatse Security site said: “I have taken the liberty of exposing your gaping hole [...]
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Two self-proclaimed Internet trolls were arrested yesterday for allegedly hacking AT&T’s servers and stealing email addresses and other personal information of nearly 120,000 iPad users who accessed the Internet via AT&T’s 3G network, United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Andrew Auernheimer, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, Calif., were [...]
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