Infamous iPad and AT&T data hacker Andrew Auernheimer, better known as "Weev," is going to jail. He will spend three years and five months in prison for accessing an AT&T public web server and obtaining thousands of email addresses he then shared with Gawker. His prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release and he will have to pay $36,500. In 2010, Auernheimer and an associate discovered that by randomly guessing iPad identification numbers and inserting them into a public and unprotected AT&T server they could access the email of customers who owned iPads. Then they wrote a script that automated the process and got their hands on 114,000 email addresses, thereby exposing a major security hole
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