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Weev convicted: court finds "iPad hacker" guilty of breaching AT&T site

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, the 26-year-old “iPad hacker” charged with federal crimes for obtaining personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T’s website was found guilty on Tuesday in federal court in New Jersey. The court convicted him in one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization. Kim Zetter in Wired has the details. Weev tweeted that he plans to appeal.

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