Oct 24, 2008 • 1 min read

Hacker who raided Miley Cyrus accounts arrested by FBI

Kevin Holly, who hacked Miley Cyrus' MySpace and Gmail accounts, says the FBI raided his home and took a phone and three computers, though he was not charged.

A hacker who raided Miley Cyrus' MySpace and Gmail accounts, stealing private information and photographs, and who once claimed that he could never be tracked down by the FBI has been, er, tracked down by the FBI.

In an interview with Wired, Kevin Holly revealed that the FBI raided his home on Monday after being tipped off, he suspects, by a fire marshall or fellow hacker. He was interviewed for an hour, but was not charged. However, the Feds did leave with a phone and three computers. He said: "I was just kind of scared and shocked at [the] time. 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".

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