Myspace Extortion

[Jason Tate]

Two New York teenagers have been arrested (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6077455.html) and charged with attempting to extort $150,000 from MySpace, the popular community Web site. The teens allegedly took advantage of a flaw they discovered that allowed them to obtain personal information about MySpace users. Although MySpace discovered the intrusion and blocked it, the teens made threat to release new exploit code unless they were paid $150,000.

Submitted by idobi

[Jamie Pham]

buncha idiots

[waggy]

fucking morons. i wouldn't expect rupert fucking murdoch to get hosed by a couple fuckwit high school kids.

[resUrectMe617]

that's pretty rad, except for the fact that its illegal. either way, myspace = ehhh. too bad they couldn't get away with it...

[Roboman]

By this time, the sting operation had been set up, so instead of meeting with MySpace late last week, the pair from New York met with undercover officers from the U.S. Secret Service and the Los Angeles District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation.

Hahahaha fucking amazing. I bet that was a surprise.

[ForeverInADay]

haha ohhh, nerds.

[Tmovielife16]

ha, thats stupid, they should have leaked it as well as get the money

[TgE ARTdamage]

And it wont be one of those minimum security prisons, it'll be four years in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

[mikearduini9]

haha, bastards

[sean omerta]

hm... inconvenient for them, i'd imagine.

[NinjaXcore]

isn't everyone's personal information on display anyway? ha ha. what more could you possibly want to know about someone that isn't on their fucking page.

[billcom7]

isn't everyone's personal information on display anyway? ha ha. what more could you possibly want to know about someone that isn't on their fucking page.

thats what I was thinking, its not like you use a credit card and social secuity number to get a myspace

[st shellay]

isn't everyone's personal information on display anyway? ha ha. what more could you possibly want to know about someone that isn't on their fucking page.
It's not THAT personal.
All it showed was who looked at your page and how they got to your page.
It's not that big of a deal.
I liked Myspace plus. :(

[MusicOrMisery]

They'll probably leak this code anyway now.

[Kif]

To be fair, Myspace's setup is fucking ridiculous anyway. I've seen a website that talking about Myspace's security

[ilovebsb]

oh man what a good laugh. its good to know there are people that are absolultey retarded sometimes

[YourMusicSucks]

This would be used to get passwords, for those who didn't catch that.

[zizou1790]

haha fuck myspace

[fugitive_alien]

haha, they're so gullible thinking they were meeting myspace employees to discuss payment.

[CradlingxHatred]

haha, they're so gullible thinking they were meeting myspace employees to discuss payment.

HAHA, I know.

[thexflamesxburn]

typical long island morons

[JIMMYateEARTH]

And it wont be one of those minimum security prisons, it'll be four years in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

HAHAHa , that never gets old

Don't cha Know they were thinking it was a smart idea, and tehy would get away with it.

[ramstar]

ha they made front page of Newsday (LI paper) on Friday. pretty amusing that myspace scandals are more impt that 99% of whats going on in the world.

[splitsecond]

They should have known better than to trust someone they met on myspace. Fucking noobs.

[cahrishurr]

hahaha

im having trouble finding words to respond to this with lol

[armegeddon]

too bad they didn't get away with it, it'd would've been nice to see MySpace get duped. oh well

[insidepunk]

People tried this with Google too. They just walked in and demanded the money, and Google simply called the cops. Idiots

[*crying stars*]

they were idiots to think that they could blackmail myspace.
it's such a popular website, it would be impossible.

come on, everyone and their mom have a myspace.

[st shellay]

http://www.myspace.com/sharrison
http://www.myspace.com/saverio13

[downtobangbang]

these kids are from my school.
they were smart in programming but no one understands how they tried to get away with that. they are out on bail right now it was like $35,000 each I beleive but $150,000 isnt worth 20 years in jail. go connetquot! (sarcasticness)