Cast your head back to the summertime of 2010 : the Verizon iPhone was a glimmering in rumourmonger ’ eyes , that 24-hour interval we would never forget was still month aside , anda bug in AT&T ’s Website allowed a “ security ” firm to acquire a huge list of iPad users ’ due east - chain mail addresses . Now New Jersey territorial dominion attorney Paul Fishman hasfiled charges against the two men creditworthy for the plug .
The two defendants , Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer , were each charged with one enumeration of fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization . They are scheduled to seem on Tuesday in federal courts in New Jersey and Arkansas , respectively .
The incident come up to light in June of last class , after Gawkergot its hands on the list of 114,000 addressesbelonging to owners of 3G - enable iPads . Panic sate the street , specially when it was let out that the addresses in query included those of high - profile folks like former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel , New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg , and CBS News backbone Diane Sawyer .
But the affright sink when it became seeming that the only thing the hackers got were the due east - chain armor destination themselves . It did n’t seem as though any iPads had been compromised , or even any e - mail bill . In fact , the question arose whether this was even legitimately a hack or whether AT&T had just failed to properly plug their site .
Still , the FBIlaunched an investigationshortly thereafter , the end answer of which will no doubt be disclosed when the bureau holds a joint jam league with Fishman on Tuesday .
