http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000863 By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek January 19, 2011 United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman on Tuesday announced the arrest of "two self-described Internet 'trolls'" for their alleged involvement in the harvesting of e-mail addresses from some 120,000 Apple iPad users in June, 2010. Andrew Auernheimer, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, Calif., were arrested on Tuesday by FBI agents on charges that they conspired to hack into AT&T's servers and that they were in possession of information obtained from those servers. The complaint against the two men says that they created a script called "iPad 3G Account Slurper" to harvest data from AT&T's servers. Prior to June, 2010, AT&T associated the e-mail addresses of subscribers to its iPad 3G data plan with an Integrated Circuit Card Identifier (“ICC-ID”). The company kept this information confidential but unwittingly exposed ICC-ID numbers in URLs associated with its Web site. The Account Slurper script was designed to look like an iPad 3G to AT&T's servers. It presented a series ICC-ID numbers as a brute force attack and received paired e-mail addresses when the guessed ICC-ID number was valid. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Thu Jan 20 2011 - 03:10:31 PST
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