Weev sentenced for over three years after stealing iPad data
A computer hacker has landed in jail for three years and five months after stealing data from iPads belonging to approximately 120,000 users.
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Apple's iPad found itself the hacker's target through infiltrating the AT&T network, Reuters reports. Not only were normal United States citizens affected, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Harvey Weinstein and TV news anchor Diane Sawyer also bore the brunt of the attack.
After being sentenced in November by a Newark, New Jersey jury, 27 year-old Andrew Auernheimer was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to access AT&T Inc servers without consent, and one case of identity theft. The U.S. Justice Department had petitioned for a sentence of between three and four years as U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton ruled that Auernheimer would spend three years and five months -- 41 months -- behind bars.
