Andrew Auernheimer's 41-Month Sentence for AT&T Data Breach

He'll also have to pay AT&T $73,000 in damages. Andrew Auernheimer, better known by his pseudonym He alerted AT&T to the flaw before sending the dataset to Gawker, which published it, leading to an FBI investigation.

Mr. Auernheimer is part of the grey hat hacker collective Goatse Security, a division of the Gay Nigger Association of America, recently responsible for trolling the Daily Mail and unleashing a torrent of malicious spam on Tumblr. Back in November, Mr. Auernheimer was found guilty of