iPhone 4G finder outed, regrets not making more effort to tell Apple

Wired has identified Brian J. Hogan as the bar patron who found Apple engineer Grey Powell's lost iPhone 4 prototype. Hogan went on to sell exclusive access to the device to Gizmodo for $5,000, after fruitlessly calling Apple's support hotline.

Hogan's attorney Jeffrey Bornstein says that Gizmodo emphasised to Hogan that, "there was nothing wrong in sharing the phone with the tech press," but the 21-year-old Redwood City resident, "regrets his mistake in not doing more to return the phone."

Attorney Bornstein said the public interest in the story, "has gotten completely, completely out of control," and Hogan's family has even relocated in anticipation of the ensuing media frenzy.

Currently, Gizmodo is questioning the legality of the warrant that allowed Californian authorities to enter editor Jason Chen's house and seize his computers. Investigators will not be examining the seized materials until the issue is resolved.