p2p news / p2pnet:- A 17-year-old hacker who admitted penetrating Paris Hilton’s cell phone account has been sentenced to 11 months’ detention at a juvenile facility.

As an adult, he’ll “undergo two years of supervised release in which he will be barred from possessing or using any computer, cell phone or other electronic equipment capable of accessing the Internet,” says the Washington Post.

He admitted he was responsible for “a string of crimes” including posting “revealing photos” and celebrity contact numbers from Hilton’s phone.

“The teenager told washingtonpost.com in an interview for a story this year that he also broke into the network of Dulles-based America Online Inc,” says the newspaper.

“AOL did not return calls seeking comment. Washingtonpost.com is not revealing the teenager’s name because he communicated with a reporter on the condition that he not be identified. It is Washington Post policy to not name juvenile offenders.

“In January, the teenager hacked into the telephone-records system of T-Mobile. He used a security flaw in the company’s Web site that allowed him to reset the password of anyone using a Sidekick, a pricey phone-organizer-camera device that stores videos, photos and other data on T-Mobile’s central computer servers. A month later, the teenager used that flaw to gain access to Hilton’s Sidekick files, according to corroborating information and screen shots he shared with washingtonpost.com.

DFNCTSC for short
“The Justice Department said the investigation of the teen’s associates is continuing, but it remains unclear how many of those individuals will be prosecuted. In May, Secret Service and FBI officials served search warrants on at least nine people thought to be connected to the hacking ring of which the teen was a member, known as the Defonic Team Screen Name Club or DFNCTSC for short.”

However, the story doesn’t mention Nicolas Jacobsen who, for most of last year, was also happily hacking the T-Mobile USA network and getting into Hilton’s private materiel.

“Besides stealing classified US Secret Service documents and selling them on IRC, he amused himself and friends by finding out celebrity phone numbers (including that of Paris Hilton, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher) and intercepting recently made photos from their handsets of which he circulated some,” says Wikipedia.

“He was captured by the Secret Service in October 2004, but not many details of the trial has [sic] been released to the public, according to some sources because the Secret Service might be trying to hire him to help them capture other hackers.”

(Thanks, Shawna)

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See:-
Washington Post – Teenager Pleads Guilty to Hacking Into Hilton’s Cell Phone, September 14, 2005
circulated some – Paris Hilton’s Sidekick hacked, February 21, 2005

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