Posts Tagged ‘MySpace’

This Twitter thing has been coming on like gangbusters. The messaging site has been around for a couple of years, but its popularity seems to have exploded just recently. Everyone from BarackObama to John Cleese to NASA to the consulate of Israel has a Twitter account. Heck, even yours truly does! Do you? Follow me and I'll follow you back. Twitter is really more of a social commons than a full-blown social network like MySpace or Facebook. It pretty much does one thing: allows people to "tweet" what they're up to (or what they're thinking about) in 140 characters or less. Full story

19-Year-Old Says He Hacked Celebrity E-Mail, MySpace Accounts A teenager who claims he hacked the e-mail and MySpace accounts of Miley Cyrus earned more than $100,000 by accessing other celebrity accounts and using them to send spam, according to an FBI affidavit. Josh Holly, 19, told the FBI that he hacked numerous celebrity MySpace and e-mail accounts, according to a search warrant affidavit, which was first reported by WTVF Channel 5 in Nashville, Tenn. The FBI searched Holly's apartment in October 2008 and seized several computers and an iPhone as part of an investigation into the hacking of Cyrus' e-mail account. Full story