Internet security seems to always a hot topic, but as it turns out, not for T-Mobile. A few months ago, someone called Nick Jacobsen hacked into T-Mobile’s website and gained access to user accounts. According to Jack Koziol from Ethical Hacking and Computer Forensics, he more than likely exploited the T-Mobile website due to poor coding.
Now, it would be expected that this exploit would lead to stolen credit card details and personal information, but it turns out that T-Mobile also stores user’s address books, notes, and camera-phone photos. This is pretty appalling if you’re a celebrity like Paris Hilton, who has already had her fair share of shit posted on the internet (not only was I once in possession of her old telephone number, but I also saw the infamous Paris Hilton sex tape).
Unfortunately for her, there were more pictures than the above, including naked photos, and one of her having a rather steamy naked pash with an unknown cute girl. In addition to this, her address book contained the details of quite a few other well-knowns, such as Christina Aguilera, Lindsay Lohan, Tara Reid, Fred Durst, Adam Levine, and Pauly Shore, to name just a few.
The question is – why on earth would this stuff be hosted on T-Mobile’s vunerable web servers, and secondly, is anyone ever going to be friends with Paris Hilton again?
Haha, it’s mirrored over here…
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I actually feel really sorry for her and I don’t want the link on my site. S’oz!
are people still friends with pauly shore?
It’s just life in the spotlight…. she can’t complain, and I don’t think she would.
If there wasn’t a rabid public looking for all this information on her, buying tabloids, magazines wrapped with her image, and watching the simple life, she would have nothing.
This is the kind of stuff that has made her wealthy in her own right. Need proof?
Well how else would she have the pop-culture-capital to be:
1-The new Guess? Girl;
2- Opening her own club, “Club Paris” in Orlando FL;
3- Releasing a book “Confessions of an Heiress”;
4- Co-producing a National Lampoon film!?;
5- Recording a solo album;
6- Starring in three seasons running of the crappiest Television there is.
And you’re right, it’s not fair, it’s American. And she’ll make millions more because of it.