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Another Celebrity's Sidekick Gets Hacked
by Ed Hardy - 7/23/2006
T-Mobile and Danger, Inc. have enjoyed all the free publicity they have received from celebrities using the Sidekick cellular-wireless handheld in public. But there can be downsides to this, too, like way it's always big news whenever someone famous gets their device hacked.
For example, the tabloids are buzzing with the news that someone recently got their hands on the password for Lindsay Lohan's Sidekick and soon her friends started receiving "disgusting and very mean messages that everyone thought were coming from Lindsay," according to the starlet's spokesperson, Leslie Sloane Zelnik.
Much to the glee of gossip-hounds everywhere, Ms. Lohan is accusing her one-time friend Paris Hilton of sending these messages. Not surprisingly, Ms. Hilton denies any involvement.
Some Background
In 2004, a teenager managed to get a hold of the password for Paris Hilton's Sidekick account and posted the contents of this device on the Web.
It wasn't necessary to actually obtain either Ms. Hilton's or Ms. Lohan's actual devices because all the information on each of these handhelds is automatically backed up on a T-Mobile server.
The culprit in Hilton case turned out to be a teenager who was later caught and sentenced to eleven months in juvenile detention.
link to this story
by Ed Hardy - 7/23/2006
T-Mobile and Danger, Inc. have enjoyed all the free publicity they have received from celebrities using the Sidekick cellular-wireless handheld in public. But there can be downsides to this, too, like way it's always big news whenever someone famous gets their device hacked.
For example, the tabloids are buzzing with the news that someone recently got their hands on the password for Lindsay Lohan's Sidekick and soon her friends started receiving "disgusting and very mean messages that everyone thought were coming from Lindsay," according to the starlet's spokesperson, Leslie Sloane Zelnik.
Much to the glee of gossip-hounds everywhere, Ms. Lohan is accusing her one-time friend Paris Hilton of sending these messages. Not surprisingly, Ms. Hilton denies any involvement.
Some Background
In 2004, a teenager managed to get a hold of the password for Paris Hilton's Sidekick account and posted the contents of this device on the Web.
It wasn't necessary to actually obtain either Ms. Hilton's or Ms. Lohan's actual devices because all the information on each of these handhelds is automatically backed up on a T-Mobile server.
The culprit in Hilton case turned out to be a teenager who was later caught and sentenced to eleven months in juvenile detention.
link to this story
Score two for the anti-spoiled-brat-with-no-talent squad.