Amor Hilton fights back
That's Amor Nicholai Hilton, writer, model, DJ and alleged pervert target. Last month, she supposedly started getting threatening phone calls from a man. Cops say it was Jeffrey Robert Weinberg, a convicted hacker who just got out of the federal pen a few months back for hacking a company owned by Lexis-Nexis.
We got a press release from the LA County District Attorney this afternoon regarding Mr. Weinberg's arrest and court appearance. The story below developed....
SAN FERNANDO - Jeffrey Robert Weinberg's alleged attempts to score naked pictures of an underaged girl landed him in court, prosecutors said today.
Weinberg, 22, of Dana Point is already on federal probation for computer hacking after getting out of prison last November.
Soon after his release, he allegedly began stalking "Amor Hilton," a San Fernando Valley teenage blogger, model and deejay, demanding she send him nude photos.
When she didn't comply, he allegedly broke into the pink-haired, nose-ringed writer's MySpace account, messed with her cell phone and threatened to ruin her life - part of an increasingly common practice of online predation.
"This is not first time we've prosecuted something like this," said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. "Whenever you have a gadget, whether it's an answering machine or a Web site, there's always someone who tries to get into it."
For the whole thing, click here.
As I was calling around and trying to figure this out, someone mentioned that Wired magazine has a post, which I found here (and, do yourself a favor and read the whole thing-- I'll admit that it's better than my own story, 'cause the author knows much more than I do about the subject). I also turned up his federal prison record and Amor's MySpace page, though it's not clear if that's the same one with which Weinberg was allegedly jacking around.
Just for S&G, as a source of mine used to say, my editor suggested I call down to the DA's High Tech Crime Division. And, whattya know, this is becoming more and more of a problem. Megan Meier definitely came to mind. So we're gonna keep digging on this next week and hope to give ya something more soon.
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