Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Hilton hacker sentenced

Opinion
Sep 15, 20051 min

A 17-year-old Massachusetts boy who hacked into Paris Hilton’s T-Mobile account earlier this year and unleashed a slew of celebrity contact info on the Web has been sentenced to kiddie jail.

The teen, whose identity is sealed as he is a minor under federal law, pled guilty to nine counts of juvenile delinquency and was sentenced to 11 months in a juvenile facility.

While in custody and during two years of supervised release, the teenager is prohibited from possessing or using any computer, cell phone or other equipment capable of accessing the Internet. That sounds worse than time in juvie.