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The hackers who harvested an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad 3G owner e-mail addresses defended their actions Friday as "ethical" and said they did nothing illegal.

The hacking group Goatse Security obtained the e-mail addresses using an automated PHP script that collected iPad 3G owners' ICC-ID numbers and associated addresses from AT&T's servers using a publicly-available feature of the carrier's Web site.

AT&T disabled the feature last Tuesday, a day before the Valleywag Web site first reported the story.

"We believe what we did was ethical," said Goatse member Escher Auernheimer in a telephone interview today. "What we did was right."

Read all the details HERE!Hackers of iPad say it's ethical

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Hmmm -- we'll see what the FBI concludes.
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I don't think hacking the addresses was ethical, BUT they did a service by finding the flaw and in a round about way reported it immediately. They didn't continue to do harm.

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