Let me get this straight – normal, ordinary teenagers have been sent to jail or labelled sex offenders for sexting each other…and a guy who breaks into a strangers cell phone gets probation…

Miley Cyrus hacker let off with probation

TrainReq spared after ratting out former hacking cohorts

By John Leyden • Get more from this author

Posted in Crime, 1st November 2011 16:03 GMT

Josh Holly, the self-confessed Miley Cyrus hacker, has avoided jail for unrelated computer crimes, receiving three years’ probation at a sentencing hearing on Monday.

Holly, 22, from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, pleaded guilty last April to possessing about 200 stolen credit card numbers as well as running a celebrity MySpace pages spam scam that earned him an estimated $100,000. Holly was spared jail time because he’d agreed to inform on his former hacking cohorts to the FBI.

Read more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/miley_cyrus_hacker_probation/