How Paris got hacked

IT'S PROBABLY NOT SMARTto use a common name as a password. Paris Hilton did and she gave away her phone records to the world. Hilton uses a Sidekick II and that little piece of silicon has no sophisticated lock-down feature on it. You could probably get the phone numbers in the online accounts of most people in Ireland by trawling through the O2 and Vodafone sites with known numbers and names of pets. Social passwords are just too easy. By the way, the name of my dog is "Doggie" for anyone interested in this sort of thing.

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Brian McWilliams -- "How Paris Got Hacked"  with screen grab of the compromised account.

Russ Beattie: "Mobile data is sensitive data."
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