Paris Hilton’s mobile phone contents have been posted on the Internet, revealing contact info that has reportedly be used already to contact her show biz friends.
Hackers posted a copy of the hotel heiress’s address book on a website, listing the numbers and email addresses of some 500 acquaintances including Eminem and Christina Aguilera.
It is not known how the information was obtained, but Hilton’s was reportedly one of many celebrity phones compromised in an attack on T-Mobile’s network that accessed numbers from some 400 of the company’s customers.
Last week Nicholas Jacobsen, 22, a California-based hacker, pleaded guilty to one charge of accessing a protected computer and causing reckless damage.
He is scheduled to be sentenced in May and faces a maximum possible sentence of five years in prison.
The Hilton phonebook was posted on the illmob.org website on Sunday but is no longer accessible. It was in the public domain long enough to cause significant frustration for many of her associates.
According to the report, Eminem had to change his phone number. “The voice mailbox of Fred Durst, front man of Limp Bizkit, was full and tennis star Anna Kournikova’s number was said to be constantly engaged,” the report says.
Victoria Gotti, reality television star and daughter of crime boss John Gotti, also got some 100 phone calls.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.