Jerry DeMarco reports:
A computer hacker who helped write the malicious code behind a breach of AT&T’s computer servers admitted today that he conspired with another Internet “troll” to hack into the servers, steal information from “the most exclusive list of [iPad subscribers] on the planet,” and then boast about it online.
In pleading guilty to his part in the attack, Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, didn’t agree to help the government in its case against the accused mastermind of the scheme, 25-year-old Andrew Auernheimer, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark.
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