Yesterday, Andrew "weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison, three years of probation, and restitution of $73,000 after being convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges. His actions had revealed a security flaw in AT&T's user data base.In essence, weev added a number to the end of a URL on AT&T's public database and realized that he was moving from one user's information to another. He aggregated the data and gave it to Gawker, making 114,000 iPad 3G owners data public. ]]>
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