14 DAY TRIAL // College Hill TV series star Dorion Standberry woke up to a really bad Monday, after an unknown hacker broke into his email during the night and started sharing its contents with all of the actor's followers on Twitter. Several other celebrities got caught in the middle and had their phone numbers, which were stored in Standberry's address book, leaked.
Defamatory messages began to appear on Dorion Standberry's Twitter feed during the early hours on Monday. The incident lasted about five hours and, as it progressed, the messages became more offensive and more people were affected. It is believed that the hacker initially obtained access to the actor's email and changed the password. Once he had full control of the email address, it was easy to also reset the password of the Twitter account and hijack it.
After getting tired of only writing slanderous messages on Twitter, the hacker also got on the associated Twitpic account and started uploading compromising photos of Mr. Standberry, extracted from his emails. Like that wasn't enough, he went on to make his real home address and phone number public.
The hacker didn't stop there and also posted the phone numbers of other celebrities, such as Nicole Richie, which Dorian had saved in his email's address book. "I called the telephone number posted as belonging to the victim in order to let him know of the attack. The number was genuine, but the voice mail was not taking messages. I also contacted Twitter asking them to suspend the profile," Rik Ferguson, solutions architect at Trend Micro, said.
In a phone interview with the V-103 Atlanta radio station, the actor explained that he was not ashamed of the pictures leaking out, as he also worked as a model and was comfortable with other people seeing him in such postures. Though he tried to make it clear that it was ultimately not his fault, he did say that he was sorry about other people having their personal details exposed as a result of this incident.
"His Twitter profile says 'I act, I model, I sing, I socialize!!,' he can add 'I get pwned' to that list now too," Rik Ferguson ironically commented. However, he wouldn't be the first celebrity to have his Twitter account or email hijacked. We just wrote about Lindsay Lohan blaming a hacker for similar happenings and she is just a recent addition to a long list of such incidents that occurred this year.