Chaz Gets Hacked : 0

Devon Lynn Townsend, who worked in Sandia's Technology and Manufacturing Group, has been charged with fraud and related activity, according to filings in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. The labs have conducted an internal investigation over the past several days and terminated her employment today, said Michael Padilla, a labs spokesman. Ray Twohig, Townsend's attorney, said his client is far more concerned with her upcoming trial than losing her job. "She's charged with serious federal crimes," Twohig said.

In October, an agent from the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General uncovered evidence that Townsend had hacked into cell phone and computer accounts owned by Bennington and his wife, Talinda Bennington, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday. The U.S. Secret Service had received a complaint from the Benningtons that "an unknown person, without authorization, had somehow accessed their Verizon Wireless telephone account," according to the complaint. The Secret Service traced the unauthorized access back to a computer address owned by Sandia, the complaint said.

The labs inspected the computer and traced the activity to an account owned by Townsend. The computer had been used to access the couple's Verizon Wireless accounts and change passwords, according to the complaint. Sandia investigators also found a desktop folder on the computer that contained a 34-page Verizon Wireless bill that belonged to the Benningtons, the complaint said.

Investigators also found photos identified by Talinda Bennington as cell phone pictures the couple took on a trip to Japan, the complaint said. Twohig said the charges against Townsend remind him of "fans hiding out in Mick Jagger's dressing room. It's the modern Internet version of that."

Source: http://www.lptimes.com

Heh. That guy must really like Chaz. I mean...REALLY.

What kind of a person goes to those lengths just to have that kind of information? How does a person get like that? Anytime I hear about fans like this, it just makes me think about how easy it can be to get obsessed with something.

lol what the fuck?

what a loser!

thats fucked up

wat a lozer ,tottaly aggree wit u

yeah...a stalker...

she should have get some unreleased music from him...lol

haha

and a retard

she might have been following them

Well, thats pretty messed up. At least she didnt do anything that was too damaging to their accounts or anything.

And for clarification since people keep refering to the hacker as a 'he'...

...Its a SHE.

yeah...a stalker...

 

she should have get some unreleased music from him...lol

That would have been nice.. But still, it isn't right what she has done

yeah indeed. L O S E R.

she probably never heard of the word "Privacy"

That would have been nice.. But still' date=' it isn't right what she has done[/quote']

lol i bet some other people wouldve done the same if they got the chance

I don't think she understands that there's a line between "Fandom" and "Stalking"

Fandom

-------

Stalking

Like that

ahaha

darn lucky it was cleared up aye.

dam sometimes its almost not worth being famous when you have wierdos like her lurking around =/

Check it out: http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1562868,00.html

apparently she was threatening his wife...

this only proves it when someone says "People Are Crazy"

That shit is crazy. I mean for someone to get that obsessed to even go as far as threatening Chester's wife. I mean... that's weird. Who would go around stalking some guy from a band!?

this makes me laugh... what kind of loser would you have to be?

seriously!!!

Fan Hacks Chester Benningtons Phone

"We'd be willing to be more than one of you know the likeness of Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, but how many among us would go so far as to try to break into his phone? Apparently a 27 year old woman by the name of Devon Townsend used a machine at a Sandia National Lab in New Mexico to gain access to Bennington's Verizon account, and obtained call records and cameraphone shots; apparently she also got access to his wife's email and went so far as to verbally threaten the poor Mrs. Bennington. Like Chappelle before him, we can understand Bennington not wanting someone playing on his phone, but think he should be glad he made it out of this one relatively scot free."

[taken from engadget.com]

wow quite teh story. i no weve got some pretty big lp fans around but thats kinda extreme dont ya think.