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Hacker 'Weev' Outs Prosecutors With Ashley Madison Accounts

  • Forbes, Friday, October 9, 2015 2:40 PM

Hacker Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer, who was prosecuted for allegedly violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after he exposed a security glitch at a site operated by AT&T, now says he will reveal the identities of federal prosecutors who signed up for extramarital dating site Ashley Madison. An appellate court reversed Auernheimer's conviction last year. "The scope and methodology of Weev’s doxxing attacks renew and expand concerns that Ashley Madison users will be outed," Forbes writes.

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