Teens Arrested in MySpace Extortion Scam

An anonymous reader writes "Two New York teens have been arrested after trying to extort $150,000 from the makers of MySpace, the popular online community site." From the article: " MySpace discovered the intrusion earlier this year and blocked it. The Los Angeles-based company also reported the incident to authorities. During the course of the investigation, threats were made that unless $150,000 was paid, new exploit code would be released, according to the statement. By this time, the sting operation had been set up, so instead of meeting with MySpace late last week, the pair from New York met with undercover officers from the U.S. Secret Service and the Los Angeles District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation. "

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lol

[Scott Swezey]

Haha. Sorry, they had it comming, even people laughing at them. Stupid script kiddies.

One more time for the road: Ha ha.

Re:Tracker Sites

[pimpimpim]

Thank you for all the info! The way you put it, this doesn't seem to be really 'hacking', everyone is allowed to offer pictures to be included in webpages, and they could ask money for doing it as well, nothing illegal in that! Of course asking 5 dollar/month for the services they offered is a scam, but so is myspace in general, and anyone wasting time and money on all this should just in general be pitied upon :) Furthermore, this doesn't seem to be about "badly written code" in myspace that much, but more about myspace not knowing what their users want. So far, nothing seems to be going on.

But I guess when they start blackmailing for lots of dollars, they just pass a line and it becomes an undisputable illegal activity. Actually it's a shame, they could've keep on earning a lot of money with just offering stupid people what they want, but know they cut in their own fingers...