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The Miley Cyrus hacker who was able to get into Miley’s email has been released and will only get probation! But he didn’t just hack, he also stole credit card numbers and tried to scam people!
A Tennessee man who once bragged about hacking into Miley Cyrus’ email account and posting racy photos of the popster online is finally facing the music.
21-year-old Josh Holly was sentenced to three years’ probation today in federal court in Nashville after copping to charges in a separate cybercrime case, E! News has learned.
A spokesman for the U.S. District Attorney’s Office Middle District of Tennessee tells E! that despite the lack of jail time for Holly—who could’ve faced up to 13 years in prison—prosecutors were satisfied the punishment fit the crime.
The Tennessee native pleaded guilty last April to stealing 200 credit card numbers and unauthorized commercial mail message fraud for breaking into the MySpace pages of a number of celebrities in a spamming scheme to sell ringtones that netted him up to $100,000 in commissions.
According to the D.A., the judge also was lenient with Holly since he was a first-time offender and cooperated fully with the FBI in its investigation into the cybercrimes, though he was never held to specific account for hacking Cyrus.
“Specifically related to Miley Cyrus, I think there were probably some issues there that were probably misdemeanors but the only charges he was charged with were the credit cards and the Internet postings,” said the spokesman. “[Prosecutors] may have asked for some token jail time…but nothing significant. This is the way it ended up.”
After Holly bragged to Wired that he had hacked into Cyrus’ Gmail account in 2007 and pilfered several sexy images of the then 15-year-old (including one of Miley posing in a wet T-shirt), authorities tracked him down and raided his Murfreesboro, Tenn., home, whereupon they came across the credit card stash and promptly arrested him.
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Via Eonline
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