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Andrew Auernheimer

Andrew Auernhiemer found and exploited a major security flaw in AT&T's website that allowed him to obtain more than 120,000 email addresses of owners of iPads. He released some of addresses publicly and reported the flaw to Valleywag. He was convicted and sent to prison in 2011, but the conviction was overturned in 2014.