Two Charged In iPad Data Breach
Written on January 22, 2011 – 2:40 am | by Chloe Gatenby
A group of hackers calling themselves Goatse Security claimed they had exploited a security flaw in AT&T’s 3G network and had gained access to personal information belonging to thousands of iPad users. On Tuesday, Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer were arrested in connection with this June incident.
While the original number of compromised accounts was thought to have been 114,000, new figures reveal that personal data was obtained from 120,000 iPad 3G users. According to Reuters, both Spitler and Auernheimer were “charged with one count of fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization.”
The hackers had managed to snoop out accounts from the major service branches of the military, NASA, the FCC, DARPA, the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Health.
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