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Re: Paris Hilton's Sidekick Hacked


news01@jmatt.net
7 Mar 2005 10:31:52 -0800

Dr. Joel M. Hoffman wrote:

>> Paris Hilton's address book, famously kept on a T-Mobile Sidekick, has
>> been popping up all over the internet after someone managed to figure
>> out her password.

> Do we know for sure that this was just a guessed password?

Articles I read said that it was a well-known hole in T-Mobile's
website which allowed somebody who knew a customer's phone number to
reset her password.

See
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,100104,00.html

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