Two Arrested in iPad Security Breach
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The United States Attorney’s Office in Newark filed charges against two men on Tuesday after they obtained and distributed the e-mail addresses of 114,000 iPad owners last June. Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer were arrested Tuesday and charged “with one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and one count of fraud,” according to a spokeswoman for the office.
Last June Mr. Auernheimer, known online as Weev, gained national attention when a group he represents, known as Goatse Security, discovered a security loophole in AT&T’s Web site that exposed more than 114,000 e-mail addresses, along with corresponding I.D. numbers for 3G iPads, to the public.
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