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>> "Anyone know if this was illegal, then?"

I don't know the full details of the case but didn't the hacker weev get imprisoned for downloading 100k user records from AT&T?



He did. It'll be interesting to see how sophisticated this attack is compared to the AT&T one. It looks like there's Java code used to dump this, rather than just using wget.

I think part of weev's downfall was the subsequent conversation he had discussing what he could hypothetically do with the data though.




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