Cybersecurity
AT&T Hacker Auernheimer Is Sentenced to Months in Prison
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The head of a computer hacking group was sentenced to three years and five months in prison for breaching AT&T Inc. servers and stealing personal information of more than 114,000 users of Apple Inc. iPads.
Andrew Auernheimer, 27, was sentenced today in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, where he was convicted Nov. 20 of conspiring to gain unauthorized access to AT&T servers and disclosing private data to a reporter for the website Gawker. Auernheimer, who helped run a group called Goatse Security, was handcuffed during the hearing, provoking gasps from supporters.