AT&T hacker gets acquitted after being tried in wrong state
Philadelphia: Infamous hacker Andrew Auernheimer, who was convicted on multiple federal counts related to a hacking spree in which he stole 114,000 email addresses from AT&T in 2012, must be a relieved man now as his conviction has been dismissed by U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
It is to be noted that Andrew lived in Arkansas but he was tried in federal court in Newark, N.J.
The U.S. Court of Appeals said in Philadelphia that though Andrew?s crimes, violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and identity theft, had no connection to the Garden State and acquitted him.
It was earlier reported that Andrew could have passed the data to Chinese intelligence but he told the court that he provided the data to Gawker.
Auernheimer was awarded 41 months jail term in 2012 and he is behind bars since then at the Allenwood Federal Club Fed Correctional Complex in W hite Deer, Pennysylvania. Andrew's attorney,Tor Ekeland, said that his client was made to remain in jail in solitary confinement almost 24 hours a day.
It is learned that Ekeland is now trying to get Auernheimer released, saying he has been treated badly in prison.
According to the federal complaint, Andrew hacked AT&T's servers and stole the email addresses of more than 100,000 customers who were using iPads to access the Internet.
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