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This iPad Hacker Just Got 41 Months Of Jail Time

Mar 18, 2013, 22:51 IST

Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, the hacker who notoriously released hundreds of thousands of iPad owners' email addresses in an effort to call out AT&T's lax security, has been sentenced to three years and five months of jailtime, to be followed with three years of supervised release.

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We've previously reported on Auernheimer's hacking, in which he and a compatriot gained access to an AT&T Web server, saved customer email addresses, and released them to Gawker.

Auernheimer plans to appeal; his lawyers argue that AT&T's Web server was public and unsecured, and hence his sentence would criminalize visiting a website.

He'd previously told Business Insider he expected to go to jail: "I'm looking forward to it. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of trolling done from a prison cell. I can knock a good one on Western civilization just by writing letters."

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