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Hilton Hacker Gets 11 Months

Posted by Zonk on from the shades-of-dade-murphy dept.

B747SP writes "Well, the guy who 'acquired' the contents of Paris Hilton's Sidekick telephone and published them on the Internet has had his day in court. T-Mobile USA and the State of Massachusetts are pleased to report that he has been sentenced to 11 months in a juvenile facility. He's also not allowed to own or use a computer, a cellphone, or any other device that can access the Internet for two years. It turns out that the Hilton hack was just one of many Bad Things(tm) that he had been up to: calling in bomb threats to schools, creating T-Mobile accounts for himself and his friends, breaking in to data broker LexisNexis' systems are just a few of his exploits."

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  1. Maybe t-mobile will learn. by crazygeek02 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe T-mobile will get their act together now and fix all the problems. Who knows.

  2. DOS? by cached · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From TFA:

    In June, a second phone company became a victim to the juvenile's attack, according to the U.S. Attorney's statement. A phone that had been activated fraudulently was disabled, and the teen retaliated with a denial-of-service attack on the company's Web site when it refused to reactivate the phone.

    Im not trying to troll, but what kind of professional website gets harmed by a DOS attack anymore. Slashdot alone should make webmasters think twice before putting up a service with a server that cant handle DOS attacks. :)

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  3. 'Social engineering' is not hacking! by Prophetic_Truth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    its being a good con artist! So what, this guy was able to sound like paris hilton, and she picked a stupid 'password reminder' that he used to get the real info from a phone jockey at T-mobile. Calling this kid a hacker is JUST WRONG.

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    1. Re:'Social engineering' is not hacking! by Burning1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      What are you talking about? Social engineering is the greatest tool in a hackers leatherman. What this kid did was not a difficult, and he probably doesn't deserve the term "hacker." However, what he did is certainly a valid hack.

  4. "Hacker"? by HugePedlar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some kid guessed her password reminder and we're calling him a hacker? Even "cracker" would be too good for this feat of leetness.

    Not sure I'd even deign to call him a script-kiddie.

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  5. Re:To coin a phrase... by nomadic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And of course Mitnick waiving his right to a speedy trial and his defense team requesting delays during the trial had NOTHING to do with why it took so long, right?