Hilton Hacker Jailbound

Hilton Hacker Jailbound

Just in case you were wondering, it's once again safe to give Paris Hilton your number.
The 17-year-old boy who hacked into the hotel heiress' Sidekick account and posted her A-list contacts online has been sentenced to 11 months in a juvenile detention facility.
Under federal law, the boy's identity is protected, but he lives in Massachusetts and has apparently hacked more than Hilton's prized phone, according to the Washington Post. He copped to his crimes in front of a federal judge last week in Boston, pleading guilty to nine counts of juvenile delinquency.
The charges included hacking into Internet and telephone service providers, stealing personal information and posting it on the Web, and making bomb threats to high schools in Florida and Massachusetts--all over a 15-month period.
In addition to his stint in juvie, the Paris perp will be on supervised release for two years, during which time he must stay away from computers and any device that can connect to the Internet.
The humbled hacker worked both alone and as part of a group. He mined data from the LexisNexis Corporation, viewing person records of some 300,000 customers. And, in January, he broke into T-Mobile's internal database and hijacked Hilton's phone numbers and text messages.
Hundreds of the hotel heiress' contacts, including the likes of Avril Lavigne, Eminem and Lindsay Lohan, were exposed to the wrath of prank phone callers after the contents of Hilton's Sidekick were published on the Internet.
Some celebs reported receiving calls from as far away as China as they scrambled to change their formerly unlisted numbers to new unlisted numbers. Victoria Gotti said she received over 100 calls in two hours.
Hilton was apologetic after the debacle became public. "I want to apologize to all my friends and family," the 25-year-old told Us Weekly. "I don't know why this stuff always happens to me, but I wish it wouldn't anymore."
With her phone records now presumably safe, Hilton can continue to plan her wedding to Greek shipping heir Paris Latis. She also is contractually obligated to star in a new season of Fox's Simple Life, but producers are trying to figure out a way to retool the series since Hilton is no longer speaking to Simple sidekick Nicole Richie.
Hilton is also supposedly working on tracks for her long-delayed album on Warner Bros. She turned up at last month's MTV Video Music Awards with her new record producer, Scott Storch, trying to drum up interest in the project.
In addition to working on her record, the One Night in Paris star is set to attend at least two movie premieres in the near future. She appears in National Lampoon's Pledge This!, due out this year, and Bottom's Up, in 2006.