Miley Cyrus picture hacker led police to his house
A teen who stole images from the online accounts of actress Miley Cyrus before apparently leaving a hard-to-miss chain of evidence that led police to his house, has pleaded guilty to a separate charge of credit card fraud.
Joshua Holly, now 21, has admitted possession of 200 stolen credit card numbers and to having hijacked 20 celebrity online accounts between 2005 and 2008 to aid in spam marketing that made him at least $110,000.
However, it was his attack on the Myspace and Gmail accounts of actress Miley Cyrus in October 2007, during which he stole a number of revealing images, which proved to be his eventual undoing. Using the online name ‘TrainReq’, he subsequently boasted of the attack, after trying to sell the images to commercial sites. With no buyers, he posted the images to an online site. He was eventually formally arrested by police in January 2011.
