Two men have been charged with stealing the email addresses and personal data of over 120,000 iPad users last year. A 26-year-old from San Francisco and a 25-year-old from Fayetteville, Arkansas were charged with hacking into AT&T’s servers and stealing the data, scraped from AT&T’s website.
Both were charged with one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization. They were caught in part due to IRC chat logs in which the hackers bragged about the theft and talked about trying to spin it as a statement against AT&T’s lax security. Prosecutors are scheduled to give a press conference about the case today, so the trial should be underway before long.
Feds charge two in June 2010 iPad 3G hacking originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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