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AT&T iPad hackers’ chats were turned in by secret source

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Dissent

Robert McMillan reports:

Rhe government’s case against two men charged with hacking into AT&T’s website to steal e-mail addresses from about 120,000 iPad users got a boost last year when a confidential source handed over 150 pages of chat logs between the two and other members of their hacking group.

Excerpts from the logs, published in the court record, apparently show them talking about the legal risk of their hacking adventures, as well as ways that they could maximize the embarrassment caused by the incident.

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