February 21, 2005
Paris Hilton's phone hacked and posted
This story is all over the Web, on how hackers have posted the mobile phone address book of hotel heiress and amateur porn celebrity Paris Hilton on the Internet, putting the phone numbers and e-mail addresses of, among others, Eminem and Christina Aguilera in the public domain. [via TechWorld]
"A copy of Hilton's T-Mobile mobile phone address book appeared on the website of a group calling itself "illmob.org". The address book contains information on over 500 of Hilton's acquaintances. It is not known how the information was obtained, but the release of the contact book may be further fallout from a hack of T-Mobile's servers that came to light last month.
A second site posted all the details plus photos taken using the phone's in-built camera by Ms Hilton, plus several emails sent through the device.
PS. I've had a nagging thought since I posted this a couple of hours ago. Were these photos really in Paris Hilton's handset? They are all pictures of her, and who takes pictures of themselves - with their own cell phone?
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