Two Arrested For AT&T iPad Network Breach2011-01-19 10:10 by DanielaTags: AT&T, iPad
United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman on Tuesday announced the arrest of "two self-described Internet 'trolls'" for their alleged involvement in the harvesting of e-mail addresses from some 120,000 Apple iPad users in June, 2010. Andrew Auernheimer, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, Calif., were arrested on Tuesday by FBI agents on charges that they conspired to hack into AT&T's servers and that they were in possession of information obtained from those servers. The complaint against the two men says that they created a script called "iPad 3G Account Slurper" to harvest data from AT&T's servers. Prior to June, 2010, AT&T associated the e-mail addresses of subscribers to its iPad 3G data plan with an Integrated Circuit Card Identifier ("ICC-ID"). The company kept this information confidential but unwittingly exposed ICC-ID numbers in URLs associated with its Web site. The Account Slurper script was designed to look like an iPad 3G to AT&T's servers. It presented a series ICC-ID numbers as a brute force attack and received paired e-mail addresses when the guessed ICC-ID number was valid. Read more -here-
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