FEBRUARY 25 Undeterred by an FBI probe into his hacking of Miley Cyrus s e-mail account and MySpace page, a Tennessee man continues to engage in other computer intrusions and spamming operations, according to his own admissions.
Joshua Holly, 20, has recently described his ongoing hacking and spamming activities in forums on the Digital Gangster web site, where Holly first distributed racy images of Cyrus he found in her Gmail account. In posts this month, Holly, pictured at right, bragged about hacking Google s new Buzz feature, and he previously offered to sell a bot that spams Facebook users.
According to this search warrant affidavit, filed last year in U.S. District Court in Nashville, FBI agents have been probing Holly s Cyrus hacks since July 2008. During a raid of his Murfreesboro residence, Holly admitted illegally obtaining data from the pop singer s MySpace account without authorization and detailed his lucrative spamming. Bank records show that he was paid more than