[ISN] Alleged Miley Cyrus hacker arrested

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010511-alleged-miley-cyrus-hacker.html

By Robert McMillan
IDG News Service
January 05, 2011

The 21-year-old hacker who boasted about breaking into Miley Cyrus' 
Gmail account and posting racy photographs of the teenage star has been 
arrested in Tennessee on fraud charges.

The arrest comes more than two years after U.S. Federal Bureau of 
Investigation agents raided Joshua Holly's home looking for evidence in 
the case. In court documents, the FBI says that Holly was an 
accomplished spammer, who hacked a large number of Gmail and MySpace 
accounts.

But Holly hasn't been charged in the Miley Cyrus hack -- instead, he 
faces more serious financial fraud charges for allegedly storing about 
200 stolen credit card numbers on his computer. He could go to prison 
for 10 years and pay a US$250,000 fine if convicted of the charges.

He was arrested on Thursday and was released following his initial 
appearance in court Monday, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney 
Hilliard Hester. Holly is due back in court for a preliminary hearing on 
Jan. 12 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. His 
lawyer, Sumter Camp, Jr., did not respond to messages seeking comment 
for the story.

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