Second hacker indicted over stolen AT&T iPad data

By on Jul 7, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Legal July 7, 2011

An Arkansas man has been indicted for carrying out a cyberattack on AT&T servers that resulted in the theft of personal data from more than 100,000 iPad users. Andrew Auernheimer has been charged by a New Jersey grand jury with one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computers and one count of identity theft, Reuters reports. Auernheimer’s codefendant Daniel Spitler entered a guilty plea after being charged with the same crimes late last month. Court documents recount several conversations Auernheimer allegedly had surrounding the AT&T breach, and the evidence appears to be damning. “If we get 1 reporters address with this somehow we instantly have a story,” he wrote to Spitler on June 6, 2010, according to the indictment. “HI I STOLE YOUR EMAIL FROM AT&&T WANT TO KNOW HOW?” Auernheimer later continued, “The more email addresses we get … the more of a freakout we can cause.” Both Auernheimer and Spitler are said to be associated with “Goatse Security,” a hacker group reportedly focused on disrupting online content and services.

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  • Anonymous

    Arrrrrggggggg! It’s Red Beard. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/applelover Tim Meesseman

    Maybe he should stop stealing information and get a damn haircut and shave. My God that’s ridiculous.

  • Moops

    Well, on the brightside, once he’s in prison, he’ll get his first girlfriend. 

    Plus, it’ll be a nice change of pace from his mom’s basement.

  • Fat Mams

    One guy versus a massive corporation. AT&T should be sent to court for letting themselves get hacked considering how much money they made last year ..

  • Anonymous

    Wow, talk about stereotype hacker look! lol

  • Anonymous

    Second hacker indicted over stolen AT&T iPad data. Reportedly, he cried and snivelled all the way from his mother’s basement to the police cruiser.

    • Anonymous

      I bet when they removed him from said basement, they not only recovered many computers but probably like 20 cases of Mountain Dew. I swear all the computer nerds I know drink nothing but Dew.

      • Anonymous

        Yeah, and from the looks of things, tons of hydroponics.

      • Legion

        i drink Arizona green tea lol

      • Anonymous

        lol ill see if i can convince them to make a tea flavored Dew for you so you can join in on the fun

  • go_zzz

    Its sad instead most of the comments are about his looks as opposed to the content of the article. That’s why our society is in modern dark ages. Society is so stupid now at days.

    • LookLively

      So you look just like him eh? Please don’t hack our internets. I will help you get laid. I swear it.

      • Anonymous

        Right on queue.

      • LookLively

        Now now. Don’t get all sensitive. Let’s be clear, his appearance DOES provide some insight into why he was busy hacking servers, rather than getting a legitimate job with his skill sets. Dude looks like he hasn’t washed his hair in days. His beard isn’t combed or groomed. He’s too fucking old to be looking like this.  

        A lot of people create havoc to hide their own deep seated issues. So again, I’m positive that had he been getting laid, and had a regular core workout going on, and got a haircut, he’d probably be working at AT&T, not hacking it. Or better yet, working for himself as a consultant for AT&T. In which case, he could spend the weekends playing video games or discussing the finer points of comic books with people half his age. 

        Now, there is no amount of hacking that can keep his ass out of prison.

    • sirpaul

      Funny you mention people’s stupidity and in the same sentence write “now at days”. What a fail – go back to school.

    • http://twitter.com/aldestrawk aldestrawk

      I have to agree. I came across this site because I am researching to write an article on this case. Of all the web-sites I have read this one has the most superficial and idiotic comments. This is an interesting case because the hacking was at best, borderline illegal. You have a grey-hat, security researcher who is also admittedly, a provocative troll, doing something hardly different than what, white-hat, security researchers do. This could be a precedent setting case as to how far the Computer Fraud and Abuse Ace (CFAA) extends. The comments here for the most part ignore all that and focus on fashion, cliches about hackers in mother’s basements, and prison. Expand your horizons people, there is much more depth to the people and issues involved.

  • go_zzz

    Its sad instead most of the comments are about his looks as opposed to the content of the article. That’s why our society is in modern dark ages. Society is so stupid now at days.

  • eric

    his name should be Mo Ron.

  • Michale11111

    Send this moron and others like him away for a long time.

  • http://www.sk1wbw.wordpress.com Wayne Williams

    Dude!  Find your razor and the soap and some running water.  Then some clothes from the local WalMart (you DO live in Arkansas) and then find a woman.  STAT!

  • TuhTuhTourrr!!!

    Bitchin’ beard! 

    All those super hot hacker groupies must be all over his d*ck

    • LookLively

      He looks petrified. 

  • LookLively

    What he’s thinking: “I wonder if you get raped on the first day, or if they give you time to settle in?” 

    To which I respond “Dude, keep growing that beard and letting your “natural hair oils” settle in and you ought to be just fine” – unless you get locked up with the Sons of Anarchy. In which case, you’re gonna be tossin’ salads for ten or more.

  • Legion

    Lol a basement dwelling neckbeard, Crikey mate !!!

  • LookLively

    I bet he never thought, in a million years, that he’d be giving head for Mott’s Apple Sauce and toilet paper. Well, that’s the next 10 years is going to be like. Hungry hungry hippo indeed.

  • http://twitter.com/palfrei Peter Palfrei

    He was hiding behind that beard because it made him look inconspicuous.

  • Anonymous

    Peter Griffin had a beard like that and a bird flew out.

  • Sv

    when i picture a hacker, esp one that lives in their parents basement, thats what i see

  • Anonymous

    RIMM – HIGH SECURITY !

  • http://twitter.com/nabilfahim Nabil Fahim

    He looks like he would be part of a group named ‘Goatse Security’

  • Max

    I say 30 years.

  • Anonymous

    Ha, when I see that picture along with the info he is from Arkansas, hacker is not the first things that comes to mind.

  • Applesucksfatties

    Isn’t this the guy from those Geico commercials…. “So easy, a caveman can do it…”

  • http://twitter.com/Karmarep Karma

    this guys seriusly looks happy.

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