Miley Cyrus hacker raided by FBI

They may not be geniuses when it comes to Iraqi insurgencies, but US authorities are fine investigators when celebrity starlets have their emails hacked. On Monday, just hours after bragging that no one would ever track him down, Miley Cyrus's email hacker was raided by the FBI.

According to Wired, Kevin Holly, a charming fellow from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, infiltrated the singer and actress's MySpace account and used information from there to access her Gmail. In addition to snooping through her private correspondence, Holly also made off with provocative photos intended for Cyrus's then boyfriend Nick Jonas.

Though Holly couldn't find buyers for the illegally obtained images, he later leaked them on to the internet and went on a publicity spree – playing the cool-as-ice hacker in interviews with blogs and radio stations. The man who messed with Hannah Montana bragged that the Feds would never find him.

But they did. On Monday, FBI agents knocked on Holly's door. They were tipped off, Holly theorised, by either the local fire marshal or a fellow hacker who "ratted him out". After a one-hour interview, the agents did not immediately lay charges – but they left with Holly's phone and three computers. "I was just kind of scared and shocked at [the] time," Holly told Wired. "I was just kind of shaking. I was thrown way off guard. I've never had anything like this happen before to a point that I just didn't know what to do. I was afraid to kick them out of my house."

Holly is now waiting to see whether the authorities, or Cyrus's representatives, will file charges. Meanwhile, at an undisclosed FBI location, officials are snooping through Holly's own email for a change.


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