According to several reports, at least one of the people involved with the recent iPad/AT&T security breach has been arrested.
Andrew Auernheimer, a 24-year-old Arkansas resident, was arrested when police acting on an FBI search warrant found cocaine, ecstasy and LSD, as well as unnamed schedule 2 and 3 pharmaceuticals, in his home.
Auernheimer was part of Goatse Security; this organization, named after the InternetInternet
gross-out meme, recently sent Gawker a list of 114,067 e-mail addresses of iPad 3G customers. The list included well-known government officials, celebrities and high-profile media professionals, such as White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Diane Sawyer of ABC News.
Goatse Security obtained these addresses through a script on AT&T’s website that returned email addresses associated with ICC IDs, which are used to link SIM cards on mobile devices with specific subscribers. The group didn’t release information until the security hole had been closed, and it only released the data on the condition that the subscribers’ personal information would not be compromised.
However, Auernheimer told press last week that he and his colleagues had acted in the public’s best interest by exposing the security hole on AT&T’s part. However, AT&T claims the group carried out the hack entirely as a publicity stunt.
Authorities refused to say what the warrant was for; we’re about 99.9% positive they weren’t searching Auernheimer’s house for drugs, though. We do wonder what police found aside from the narcotics and how Auernheimer managed to pull off the exploit while using substances like acid and ecstasy.
What do you think will happen to Auernheimer, and do you think his group’s tactics fall more on the white-, black- or gray-hat side of hacking?
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