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Posted by: admin 15 years, 3 months ago

I blogged a long time ago about how social engineers got Paris Hilton's address book from T-Mobile. Now we learn that Paris is allegedly got the password to Lindsey Lohan's Blackberry:

This cyber fued between the girls started last month, when Page Six ran an item that indicated the password to Lindsay's Blackberry had been leaked. Her rep told Page Six people were sending "disgusting and very mean messages that everyone thought were coming from Lindsay. They weren't. We now have her lawyers looking into it. Some people think Paris may have been involved because the wording of the messages sounds very familiar."
Of course, unlike the Sidekick, getting the password to a Blackberry does you no good unless you also have possession of the device. More than likely, they got hold of here email password.

Now the celebra-spat-hack-a-thon has risen (sunk?) to a new level:

SpoofCard announced today that it had terminated the accounts of more than 50 customers, including Paris Hilton, who they claim used the SpoofCard service to obtain unauthorized access to voice mail accounts on a national mobile telephone network. Many of the terminated customers and the victims whose mailboxes were accessed are well-known celebrities, including Lindsay Lohan.

TMZ spoke with SpoofCard attorney Mark Del Bianco and he stated that "Paris was entering unauthorized [voice] mail boxes." When asked about Lindsay, he told us, "A number of the 50 persons [who were canceled by Spoofcard] were making unauthorized entrances to Miss Lohan's voice mail." A source close to the scandal also told TMZ that Nicky Hilton and Paris' ex-boyfriend Stavros Niarchos may have been involved.

Just when you thought it was bad enough out there with eastern European phishing gangs and Isreali corporate espionage, there is apparently also a "Cyber-feud" going on between Hilton and Lohan and more than likely, their "peeps". I thought I felt some bad vibes in the tubes.

The best part though, is that Spoofcard, who's website tagline is "Fake caller ID, Change your voice, Record Calls, Spoof Caller ID" has canceled Paris's account and announced it. Tell me that is not great publicity!

Coincidentally, we at WiKID have canceled these accounts on our extranet due to suspicious behavior: philton, shippingmagnatedude, tinkerbell.

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