Meet the Hollywood Hackers Coming For Your Nude Pics

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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.

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