Woman is sent to jail for cyber-stalking Linkin Park singer
A former US government security lab worker from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been given 60 days to surrender herself to a prison in the Phoenix (Arizona) area after a court sentenced her to two years in prison for stalking Linkin Park singer, Chester Bennington.
Devon Towsend pleaded guilty to charges including stalking and computer hacking last summer.
The woman hacked into the website of Bennington’s mobile phone operator to get his phone number and also hacked into his email account.
The fruits of her labour included access to Bennington’s family snaps ; his phone bill, which included call logs and therefore the phone numbers of his band mates and other famous people and emails from Warner, Linkin Park’s record company.
In true stalker fashion, Devon used information from the phone bill to contact Bennington’s wife to threaten her (because clearly Bennington would find that ever so attractive) and monitored his voicemail to try and figure out where he might be.
Read the full story on the Register.
- Networking,
- Linkin ,
- Park ,
- stalk
- Pakistan may have been responsible for global YouTube outage
- Analysis: Has Lenovo created the perfect laptop?
- Here comes Exascale computing
- Lufthansa unveils new flight computer that saves fuel
- iSupply dubs Ford's media system the most economical so far
- Square Enix admits lots of faults as WiiWare pioneer
- Bridgend suicide victim told ex girlfriend he was going to kill himself
- New device could mean doctors can tell if you have cancer from analyzing your breath
- Tolkien Trust sues New Line Cinema over LOTR profits
- Co-pilot dies during flight to Cyprus
- Microsoft calls it a day for HD DVD on the Xbox 360
- Class action lawsuit filed against Microsoft for false advertising
- Fujitsu unveils 500 GB notebook hard drive
- Satellite phone provider Iridium hits almost 250,000 users
- EA makes $2m bid for Take Two
- Sony brings 13.6 megapixels to a pocket camera
- Intel six-core coming in 2008
- S3 unveils low-cost DirectX 10 graphics card
