Andrew Auernheimer, better known by his online alias “Weev,” who was charged with stealing thousands of email addresses from ATT’s servers.
Andrew Auernheimer, better known by his online alias “Weev,” who was charged with stealing thousands of email addresses from ATT’s servers.
Andrew Auernheimer, also known as Weev, has been released following an appeal. The court vacated the conviction on the grounds that he shouldnt have been tried in New Jersey. Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release in mid-March 2013 for hacking into the systems of ATT and retrieving […]
Court Reverses Conviction of US ‘Security Hacker’ WASHINGTON – An appeals court in the United States overturned Friday the conviction of a self-described “security research” hacker for breaking into the ATT online network to reveal a security flaw. Andrew Auernheimer, known online as “weev,” was sentenced to just over three years in prison last year […]
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