forwardone
02-22-05, 11:58 AM
Oh no!! Now they`ve got my number. Well a guy can dream can`t he? :p
Friends of Paris Hilton, the pampered hotel heiress and social flit-about, are less than amused that a hack-attack into her T-Mobile telephone has exposed their private numbers to the world. And the world has been ringing them up.
While her pals are livid, Ms Hilton is mortified. Not only did the perpetrators access every phone number and e-mail address stored in her phone, they also siphoned off private musings she had tapped into it, including notes about her favourite airlines and hotels.
But it is hardly the first time Ms Hilton has found her privacy compromised by modern technology. This does not compare to the shock she received when a home sex video with an ex-boyfriend found its way on to the internet.
The intrusion into her mobile phone became apparent over the weekend, when the private telephone numbers were posted on a South Korean-hosted website called illmob.org. The site carried the entire contents of the heiress's address book, amounting to about 500 acquaintances. They are no longer on the site, however.
While not all of Ms Hilton's friends are necessarily stars, many are. Visitors to the website found the numbers of stars from the worlds of music, cinema and sport, including Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Andy Rod****, Ashlee Simpson, Victoria Gotti, Vin Diesel and Anna Kournikova.
What happened next was inevitable - phones starting ringing. And ringing, and ringing.
"I didn't want to take the phones off the hook because my oldest son was out on a date," Victoria Gotti, the reality television personality and daughter of the late crime boss John Gotti, told the New York Daily News. "This went on all night. Finally, at 5.30am, I took them off the hook. This morning, I put them back on and they started ringing immediately. It's driving me insane."
The online Drudge Report, which revealed the phone invasion, said another star, who declined to give his name, was beyond upset. "I gave her my number after we met in Miami, I did not know she kept it on her cellphone," he reportedly raged.
Ms Hilton, who has her own popular reality show with Nicole Richie, called The Simple Life, may be faulted for putting the numbers into her phone. But no one is blaming her for the hacking.
While the FBI were reported to be investigating the incident, there were no leads last night on who may have carried out the heist or how they achieved it. Only last week, a California-based hacker, Nicholas Jacobsen, 22, pleaded guilty to charges related to his hacking into T-Mobile's central computer system in 2003, and plundering the private details of about 400 of its customers, including social security numbers.
When he was arrested last October, Mr Jacobsen revealed that he had had access to T-Mobile's system for more than a year. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
This incident will increase pressure on mobile phone providers to find ways to deter hackers and ensure the privacy of customers. For the victims of this prank, there is little to do but change their numbers. Geoff
Friends of Paris Hilton, the pampered hotel heiress and social flit-about, are less than amused that a hack-attack into her T-Mobile telephone has exposed their private numbers to the world. And the world has been ringing them up.
While her pals are livid, Ms Hilton is mortified. Not only did the perpetrators access every phone number and e-mail address stored in her phone, they also siphoned off private musings she had tapped into it, including notes about her favourite airlines and hotels.
But it is hardly the first time Ms Hilton has found her privacy compromised by modern technology. This does not compare to the shock she received when a home sex video with an ex-boyfriend found its way on to the internet.
The intrusion into her mobile phone became apparent over the weekend, when the private telephone numbers were posted on a South Korean-hosted website called illmob.org. The site carried the entire contents of the heiress's address book, amounting to about 500 acquaintances. They are no longer on the site, however.
While not all of Ms Hilton's friends are necessarily stars, many are. Visitors to the website found the numbers of stars from the worlds of music, cinema and sport, including Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Andy Rod****, Ashlee Simpson, Victoria Gotti, Vin Diesel and Anna Kournikova.
What happened next was inevitable - phones starting ringing. And ringing, and ringing.
"I didn't want to take the phones off the hook because my oldest son was out on a date," Victoria Gotti, the reality television personality and daughter of the late crime boss John Gotti, told the New York Daily News. "This went on all night. Finally, at 5.30am, I took them off the hook. This morning, I put them back on and they started ringing immediately. It's driving me insane."
The online Drudge Report, which revealed the phone invasion, said another star, who declined to give his name, was beyond upset. "I gave her my number after we met in Miami, I did not know she kept it on her cellphone," he reportedly raged.
Ms Hilton, who has her own popular reality show with Nicole Richie, called The Simple Life, may be faulted for putting the numbers into her phone. But no one is blaming her for the hacking.
While the FBI were reported to be investigating the incident, there were no leads last night on who may have carried out the heist or how they achieved it. Only last week, a California-based hacker, Nicholas Jacobsen, 22, pleaded guilty to charges related to his hacking into T-Mobile's central computer system in 2003, and plundering the private details of about 400 of its customers, including social security numbers.
When he was arrested last October, Mr Jacobsen revealed that he had had access to T-Mobile's system for more than a year. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
This incident will increase pressure on mobile phone providers to find ways to deter hackers and ensure the privacy of customers. For the victims of this prank, there is little to do but change their numbers. Geoff