RSSTeen Sentenced in Hilton Sidekick Hack
By Ed Oswald | Published September 14, 2005, 6:58 PM
A Massachusetts teenager who was behind the hacking of Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick has been sentenced to 11 months in a juvenile prison. The 17 year-old hacked into T-Mobiles computer system in January and looked up information on customers, including Paris Hilton. At the time, T-Mobile promised a full investigation of the incident.
The hacking and subsequent display of the data on Hilton's cell phone revealed the numbers and e-mails of stars such as Rapper Eminem, actress Lindsay Lohan, Usher, Fred Durst, among others. As part of his sentence, the teen was banned from using any kind of electronic device capable of accessing the Internet for a period of two years.
Paris Hilton should've been given a sentence too... for being criminally stupid.
TMo is lame. They use their money to make an example out of this kid because he showed the world how lax their security is.
T-Mobile: Get More! Jailtime.
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|Ive seen kids that have received less time for dealing drugs and stealing cars.That judge is a dumba**! The only thing he will do in juvie is to learn and teach others how to be better crooks
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|if anything, tmobile should hire him
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|Yeah it's the kid that's stupid not T-Mobile right?
Idiots.
They need to fine the sh!t out of T-Mobile and let that kid go.
Like RompeRatones said....It's not the kids fault it's the idiots at T-Mobile.
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|And I suppose if someone hacked in to your bank's computers and stole your bank account info you would just say the the financial institution should be punished and let the hacker off the hook with whatever money they may have already stolen.
It's too bad that hacker is a juvenile. He should have gotten a much longer sentence.
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|Good call
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|So now is the teen's fault that the T-mobile people don't have a f(censored)ing clue about software security measures.
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|her password clue was easy to guess ("favorite pet's name" - tinkerbell).
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|"As part of his sentence, the teen was banned from using any kind of electronic device capable of accessing the Internet for a period of two years."
Ouch. He'd probably rather go without food for that long.
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|That basically means no college during that time, unless he's willing to pay someone to do all his research and type his papers (or use an electronic typewriter). Need to be reached? Not on a cell phone! PDA? nope, not for two years!
Even though Kevin Mitnick had a longer sentence, this one is probably worse.
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|What I want to know is...How did Eminem let Paris get his phone number. Ewwww.
But seriously folks, I know it's the precedent involved but come on, drug dealers get less punishment than that.
Make him be in her next video if you want to punsih him.
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