AT&T-iPad Hacker Arrested, Can You Guess Why?
AT&T-iPad Hacker Arrested, Can You Guess Why?
Posted 06/16/2010 at 6:01am
| by Paul Lilly
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Andrew Auernheimer, a 24-year-old authorities believe is one of the hackers who participated in Goatse Security's shenanigans in which some 114,000 iPad owners' emails were obtained through a security flaw and then posted online for all to see, has been arrested. Want to venture a guess as to why?
If you said "drugs," then you cheated, but you're also correct. By way of an FBI search warranty, Auernheimer, who goes by the name "Escher" and the hacker handle "Weev," had his home raided earlier this week. It's unclear what prompted the warrant, but during the search, authorities claimed to have found drugs.
Auerner faces four felony charges of possession of a controlled substance and one misdemeanor possession charge. According to Lt. Anthony Foster of the Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the drugs included cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and schedule 2 and 3 pharmaceuticals.
What's interesting about all this is there doesn't seem to be any indication that Auernheimer faces charges for the hacking incident, even though he's believed to be a key member of the Goatse Security group that discovered the security flaw in an AT&T website for iPad users. In a letter sent out last week to iPad owners, AT&T said it would assist in the investigation of any illegal activities related to the security breach.
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Xira666
August 01, 2010 at 1:55pm
*news flash* Fascist Bannanna Republic puts man in jail for embarrassing those who run the country! SHOCKER AT 11!
Really though what did he expect would happen? He embarrassed Apple, and Apple is one of the multinationals that run the country, so of course he had to go to jail. If they hadn't found drugs they would have charged him with something else, like child porn.
It's not like he's from an enlightened free country where this sort of thing is tolerated.
gliscameria
June 20, 2010 at 9:38am
I'm sure hackers will be totally nice to you in the future. You know... railroading a hacker who didn't try to profit from your F-ups and was nice enough to hand the problem over to you. I'm sure you won't regret this or anything. I hope Apple users like their information being posted all over the internet.
//Glis
Scootiep
June 16, 2010 at 2:12pm
"By way of an FBI search warranty,"
/cough
A warranty is a guarantee or written assurance, a WARRANT is a writ from a court.
/cough
To start press any key...ohh, where's the "Any" key. - Homer Simpson
bikerbub
June 16, 2010 at 4:57pm
you just ended the cough string twice without starting it. just sayin.
Havok
June 16, 2010 at 12:03pm
I can't believe they actually sent the Apple Gestapo after these guys! Sure, they 'found drugs' in his apartment and drugs are bad after all, but only after Goatse announced to the world that the iPad is a security loop hole and gave it a bad rap!
Aww man, I could be nex- (SUBJECT TERMINATED. <3 APPLE)
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