Linkin Stalker - Top Story of 07
12/28/07
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[originally published 05/17/07](Idolator) The latest issue of Wired has a lengthy, utterly creeptastic story about Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, who was cyberstalked by an employee of Sandia National Laboratories--a federal nuclear-research facility--for more than a year, and how the woman who did it--changing passwords and sending out spoofed e-mails all along--found out how to access his personal information: The stalking started after she saw Chester's email address inadvertently CC'd in a mass mailing to promote a tattoo parlor he owned in Tempe. Using Chester's birthday and zip code to access his Mac.com account, she started guessing passwords until she found the right one: his middle name, Charlie. [see full story for more and yes Wired is still around. Remember back when they wrote the epitaph for Apple?]- - more on this story
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