Teen MySpace hackers

In this case, MySpace was one of the victims. Two teens, 18 and 19, on Long Island (N.Y.) have been charged with felony counts of illegal computer access and extortion, Playfuls.com in Romania reports. The two operators of MySpaceplus.com allegedly "threatened to distribute a foolproof method for stealing [MySpace user personal] information unless MySpace paid them $150,000." If convicted, they could face more than four years in jail. As Newsday (on Long Island) quotes a Georgetown University law professor as saying, the two represent a long tradition of hacking into systems to point out their flaws, but they get "points off" for extortion. The story was picked up throughout the US, and a number of other countries, including India, at Techtree.com, and Australia (here's the Sydney Morning Herald).