Thursday, January 6, 2011

Hannah Montana Hacker Jacked

The 21-year-old hacker who boasted about breaking into Miley Cyrus' Gmail account and posting racy photographs of the teenage star has been arrested in Tennessee on fraud charges.

Joshua Holly, known by his hacker alias TrainReq, got a lot of attention after posting private photos of Cyrus, then just 15. In one photo, Cyrus poses in her underwear and in another she poses, clothed, in the shower. 

In subsequent interviews Holly said that he downloaded the photos from Cyrus' Gmail account. He told Wired that he accessed the Gmail account by tricking a MySpace employee into giving him access to the company's administrative control panel, which included users' passwords. (more)