A computer hacker has pled guilty to breaking into AT&T’s servers and stealing thousands of e-mail addresses belonging to iPad users, some of whom included a White House official, a famous television journalist and the Mayor of New York City.Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco waived his right to an indictment by a grand jury and pled guilty to planning and executing an attack on AT&T’s servers in New Jersey, and then accessing and sending thousands of e-mail addresses on those servers to the web site Gawker, according to the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s office.
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