Goatse Security

Goatse Security
aka GoatSec[1][2]
FormationDecember 2009; 14 years ago (2009-12)[3]
PurposeHacking
Membership
Andrew "weev" Auernheimer[4][5]
Sam Hocevar[4][6][7]
Daniel Spitler[4][8]
Leon Kaiser[2][4]
Nick "Rucas" Price[4][9][10]
Products
Clench[11][12]
Websitesecurity.goatse.fr (defunct)

Goatse Security (GoatSec) was a loose-knit, nine-person[13] grey hat[14] hacker group[15] that specialized in uncovering security flaws.[3][16] It was a division of the anti-blogging Internet trolling organization known as the Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA).[2] The group derives its name from the Goatse.cx shock site,[5] and it chose "Gaping Holes Exposed" as its slogan.[17] The website has been abandoned without an update since May 2014.[18]

In June 2010, Goatse Security obtained the email addresses of approximately 114,000 Apple iPad users. This led to an FBI investigation and the filing of criminal charges against two of the group's members.

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  14. ^ Kirsch, Cassandra (2014). "The Grey Hat Hacker: Reconciling Cyberspace Reality and the Law" (PDF). Northern Kentucky Law Review. 41: 386.[dead link‍]
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  18. ^ "Compiz vulnerability « Goatse Security". Archived from the original on July 24, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2019.