Crime is Slate’s crime blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @slatecrime. In November 2012, notorious hacker, troll, and general nuisance Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer was convicted in ...

On April 11, 2014, Andrew Auernheimer, better known by his Internet alias "Weev," was released from Allenwood Federal Correctional Center in Pennsylvania after serving just under 13 months of a ...

Gray-hat hacker and self-proclaimed Internet troll Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer had his hacking conviction vacated today (April 11) on grounds of venue, with an appeals court ruling that Auernheimer's ...

The conviction last week of a well-known hacker accused of breaching thousands of email addresses of AT&T customers brings to light the often treacherous path the government and computer security ...

Andrew Auernheimer, the 27-year-old hacker better known as Weev, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison this week for his role in what became known as the AT&T hack, with an additional 3 years ...

Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, the hacker who called attention to AT&T's poor security by releasing hundreds of thousands of iPad owners' email addresses, will be sentenced in a New Jersey court on Monday ...

According to his brand new lawyer, Andrew “weev” Auernheimer, otherwise known as the AT&T hacker, will appeal his sentence of 41 months in prison, three years probation, and restitution of $73,000 ...

A chorus of tech pundits – myself included – unleashed a collective wail of outrage earlier this week, upon learning that hacker Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer received a 41-month sentence from a U.S.

A New Jersey jury has convicted Andrew Auernheimer, a self-described Internet troll and security researcher, of identity fraud and conspiracy to access a AT&T’s systems without authorization for ...

A hacker sentenced to three and a half years in prison for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T’s unsecured website is about to go free, after a ruling today that ...

A federal judge has sentenced Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker and Internet troll better known by his online handle “weev,” to 41 months in prison. Auernheimer was convicted of conspiring with ...

Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Newark, NJ, a jury convicted Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer for his role in a 2010 exploit that caused an AT&T account maintenance website to leak 114,000 email ...