Andrew Auernheimer
Courtesy: Washington County Detention Center
Last week news came out of Apple's worst security breach that targeted almost 114,000 iPad owners. Yesterday A hacker who discovered the AT&T and iPad related flaw was arrested following the execution of an FBI search warrant of his home in Arkansas on Tuesday. He was arrested under drug charges. His name is said to be Andrew Auernheimer and his age is 24 as per the Washington County Detention Center.
According to Lt. Anthony Foster of the Washington County Sheriff's office, Fayetteville, Ark, Andrew Auernheimer, 24, was being held in Washington County Detention Center In Fayetteville, Ark.The drugs were found during the execution of the warrant, said Lt. Mike Perryman, of the Fayetteville Police Department. Andrew is facing four felony charges of possession of a controlled substance and one misdemeanor possession charge, Foster said. The drugs included cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and schedule 2 and 3 pharmaceuticals.
Auernheimer was arrested recently in March also for giving a fake name to law enforcement officers responding to a parking complaint in Fayetteville
Auernheimer is a key member of the Goatse Security group that discovered the security weakness in an AT&T Web site for iPad users last week. AT&T criticized the hackers for disclosing the flaw, but Auernheimer told that his group waited until AT&T had fixed the problem before going public and did so to help consumers protect themselves.
