http://gawker.com/5835611/meet-the-hollywood-hackers-coming-for-your-nude-pics By Adrian Chen Gawker.com Aug 29, 2011 The newest hacker gang isn't after credit card numbers or classified NATO documents. Their game is blockbuster scripts, verified Twitter accounts and nude cell phone snapshots. Harden your passwords, glitterati: Hollywood Leaks will use any means necessary to bust open the entertainment industry. Hollywood Leaks has been quietly breaking into entertainment industry insiders' email accounts for the last few weeks and leaking what they find there. They cracked the email account of an actor in the upcoming Tom Cruise musical, Rock of Ages and were surprised to find that the film's director, Peter Shankman, had sent the script around to his cast via email. They downloaded it, then put it on the Pirate Bay. They've posted the cell phone numbers of about a dozen celebrities to the hacker-friendly document sharing site Pastebin.com, including Miley Cyrus, Lil Jon, and Ashley Greene. I called N'Sync's Joey Fatone last Friday and got his voicemail. It was really him. You can listen to it on your left. (Alas, Miley Cyrus' phone number didn't work.) Hollywood Leaks say they're an offshoot of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, even appropriating their tag line "We never forgive, We Never forget." Like Anonymous, they're a loose-knit band of internet troublemakers—probably no more than five or six core members—who organize in raucous chat rooms and promote their hacks on their Twitter account. But where Anonymous is super seriously concerned with world politics and the Church of Scientology, Hollywood Leaks just wants to make celebs sweat. [...] _____________________________________________________________ Register now for the #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Wed Aug 31 2011 - 02:25:22 PDT
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