A hacker once convicted of stealing personal data from 120,000 iPad users, including former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has said he was the one who sent anti-Semitic fliers to numerous printers and fax machines on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, along with a dozen other colleges.
NJ.com reported Monday that Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, who now lives in the partially recognized Black Sea country of Abkhazia, told the news organization in a Twitter chat Monday that he targeted the printers.
The initial fliers were part of an estimated 20,000 sent to network-connected printers and fax machines on various college and university campuses nationwide. Locally, in addition to UMass, the offending fliers were received at Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges.
Dave Eisenstadter can be reached at deisen@gazettenet.com.