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Hacking Paris Hilton's cell phone, accessing LexisNexis, and defacing Burger King's Twitter account
Cameron LaCroix, aka camo, cam0, camZero, cmuNNY, is an American computer hacker best known for the hacking of Paris Hilton's cellular phone, accessing LexisNexis, and defacing Burger King's Twitter account. He has also been convicted of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer system, obtaining information from a protected computer system, wire fraud, and aggravated identity fraud. Prosecutors said victims of the teen's actions have suffered about $1 million in damages. Pursuant to a plea agreement signed by the juvenile in August 2005, he received 11 months in a federal juvenile detention facility. In January 2007 his supervised release was revoked due to possession of a cell phone.
In June 2008, an indictment for Cameron LaCroix was returned from New Bedford Superior Court in Bristol County on a series of counts for computer offenses.
References
Shapiro, Scott J. (23 May 2023). Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks (EPUB). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN978-0-374-60118-8.
