SlashNOT stats jump after Paris Hilton hack
Posted by Matthew on Tuesday February 22, 2005 @03:03PM
from the seven-deadly-syncs dept.
Matthew writes: Over the weekend, a computer used to synchronize with Paris Hilton’s ubiquitous T-Mobile Sidekick was hacked, and lurid bits of data were posted to the infamous hacker website GorillaMask.net.
The phone numbers of many A-list celebrities like Fred Durst, Lindsey Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Ashlee Simpson, Ashley Olsen, and Eminem have been forced to change their phone numbers.
Among the websites listed in her browser favorites was www.SlashNOT.com, which has resulted in a 10-fold increase in traffic over the past few days as SlashNOT’s server valiantly struggles with the page-requests of fame mongers rushing to ogle the details of Ms. Hilton’s daily routine.
We apologize for any inconvenience to our regular readers incurred, but we have elected not to change our domain name to avoid the traffic.