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Miley Cyrus hacker busted by FBI

12:29PM Wednesday October 22, 2008

UPDATED: The teenage hacker who leaked saucy snaps of Miley Cyrus online earlier this year has been caught by the FBI, internet reports say.

Josh Holly, 19, who repeatedly bragged that he'd managed to hack into the Hannah Montana star's email account and allegedly stole her private photos, was issued with a search warrant and raided by FBI in Murfreesboro, Tennessee earlier this week.

Last December, Holly got his geeky mitts on a series of snaps showing 15-year-old Cyrus posing provocatively, blowing kisses to a mirror and wearing a wet shirt in a shower (as you do) - pictures the Disney star purportedly sent to singer Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers.

Mr Hacker later leaked the piccies online and reportedly tried to flog them to a string of picture agencies.

Holly, who went by the screen names TrainReq, Rockz and h4x, had previously boasted that authorities would never find him.

Website Wired.com reports that Holly's brazen boasting even extended to giving interviews to media who were keen to report his dastardly deeds.

Here's an audio interview of the hacker in action:

But the long arm of the law has finally caught up with Holly. Feds raided his home on Monday and seized three computers and his cellphone.

Ironically, Holly claims he only disclosed his hacking antics to the world a few individuals. Oh, how we laughed.

Following his capture, Holly said: "I was just kind of shaking. I was thrown way off guard.

"I've never had anything like this happen before to a point that I just didn't know what to do. I was afraid to kick them out of my house.

"I guess somebody ended up ratting me out."

Holly last month vowed not to release any more candid snaps of Cyrus - some of which he claimed were fully nude shots of the Disney star.

He wrote in a blog post in September:

"I would like to start off first by simply saying, no more pictures of Miley Cyrus will be leaked. I would appreciate it if people would stop begging. It would not only be redundant, but it would also be very “a**holey” of me to leak a new set up pictures every week."

However, he added: "Whenever I get time, I’ll pull off another celeb hack pretty soon, I am taking a break and laying low for now."

Laying low on a sweat-stained, crusty, wafer-thin mattress in a jail cell, most likely.

Game  over.

Guy bitchy
Granted, the Madge 'n Guy public mudslinging is captivating, but I think we could all do with a little break from the divorce proceedings.

I stumbled upon this rather amusing anecdote from an actor who worked with Guy Ritchie on his latest flick RocknRolla.

So, what was it like working with Mr. Madonna?

Let me put it this way, Idris Elba, who co-stars with Gerard Butler in the movie, doesn't exactly have much love for the cockney chap.

"He’s a w*****," he says.

"Guy’s very calm and collected on the outside and he works extensively on trying to rid himself of any kind of angst.

"He has interesting people skills: he sort of engages with you and at the same time has his mind elsewhere."

Knock it off!
Actress Hilary Duff stars in this PSA to campaign against the abuse of the word "gay".

Blind bits
You guess the celebutards.

"Which handsome TV pin-up is secretly seeing two guys behind his unsuspecting girlfriend's back? The trio have been enjoying a string of sordid romps during breaks in filming." Mirror

"Which supermodel of yore is now a complete alcoholic? This is something of an improvement as a visitor to her house once noted that there were loads of wraps of coke lying around her house, some within easy reach of her toddler! No, it isn’t the one you think." BlindGossip

"Which celeb has a pilates instructor on 24-hour call for whenever she has a "fat day"? The freak-out sessions usually happen in the middle of the night after a few glasses of wine." Mirror

"What singer - and I use that term loosely -  is running out of money fast? The reason? Her fairly new husband is now acting as her business manager and using her bank account as his own personal ATM. In the short time they have been married she has lost almost $5M all because of him." CDaN

Oh, the scandal!

BBB

Fast gossip
Eat links.

Parasite Hilton has no clue how to accessorise: SL

Christina Aguilera eye opener: CR

Halle Berry talks sex: DS

Simon Cowell
shaves his man rug: Anything Hollywood

Roll that thing back in, Miley Cyrus: CR

This trout pout is worth $2 Million!: CDL

Mariah Carey on Good Morning America: INMF

David Beckham brings sexy to fish sticks: PB

Jennifer Aniston pregnant with John Mayer’s baby. Yeah, right! GB

What happened when Pink met Parasite Hilton: CS

David Duchovny denies affair: RO

Caption this: EB

Hayden PantyLiner and her No 1 fan: CP

Madonna wants a baby with A-Rod: HB

Think your man is fitter than this? Heat

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