At age 14, in 1999, he enrolled at James Madison University to study mathematics, and dropped out in 2000. Īuernheimer was born in Arkansas in 1985. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as "a neo-Nazi white supremacist" known for "extremely violent rhetoric advocating genocide of non-whites". In 2017, it was reported that he was acting as webmaster for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. In 2016, he told an interviewer that he was living in Kharkiv. Since his release from prison, he has lived in a variety of locations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In 2016, Auernheimer was responsible for sending thousands of white-supremacist flyers to unsecured web-connected printers at multiple universities and other locations in the U.S. Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison, of which he served approximately 13 months before the conviction was vacated by a higher court. In revealing the flaw to the media, the group also exposed personal data from over 100,000 people, which led to a criminal investigation and indictment for identity fraud and conspiracy. Īs a member of the hacker group Goatse Security, Auernheimer exposed a flaw in AT&T security that compromised the e-mail addresses of iPad users. He has used many aliases in contacting the media, although most sources indicate his real first name as Andrew. Affiliated with the alt-right, the Southern Poverty Law Center has described him as being a neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and antisemitic conspiracy theorist. Neo-Nazism, hacktivism, alt-right activismĪndrew Alan Escher Auernheimer ( / ˈ ɔːr ən h aɪ m ər/ OR-ən-hy-mər born 1985 ( 1985)), best known by his pseudonym weev, is an American computer hacker and self-avowed Internet troll.