LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
A 19-year-old hacker who posted some racy photos of Disney starlet Miley Cyrus on the Internet
said he was raided by the FBI this week after boasting that he would never be caught.
The hacker, Josh Holly, bragged openly about obtaining the photos from an email account
of the 15-year-old star of "Hannah Montana," the hit Disney Channel series
about a schoolgirl with a secret life as a pop star.
He even gave interviews to bloggers and boasted that he moved so often
that authorities would never catch him.
But Holly said that the FBI found him on Monday, seizing three computers and a phone
from his home in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was not arrested or charged.
"I was just kind of shaking. I was thrown way off guard," he said.
"I guess somebody ended up ratting me out."
Holly, who goes by the screen name "TrainReq," gained access to an email account
once used by Cyrus last December, and found images of the actress with a bare midriff
and blowing kisses that she supposedly sent to singer Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers.
According to Internet reports, no celebrity outlets would buy the photos from him
due to the illegal manner in which he obtained them so he posted them online
and they spread across the Internet.
An embarrassed Miley Cyrus, whose squeaky-clean image has been carefully managed by Disney,
publicly apologized for the photos, saying they were "silly, inappropriate shots."
(Reuters)
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