One of the worst side-effects of having your mobile phone is stolen is losing your address book, especially if you haven't backed it up. But that's not something that Paris Hilton need worry about - some kindly soul claims to have hacked into the T-Mobile database and uploaded her address book and other personal data for her (and everyone else's) convenience.
The Drudge Report, which breaks this story of international importance, manages to concentrate on the downside, namely that all the other "top stars" (that's Lindsay Lohan and Ashlee Simpson) are put out to find their telephone numbers available to anyone who could find the webpage. Some may already have experienced prank calls.
A slightly fuller report (and a less breathless one) at the Register implies that the information may have come from a man who last week admitted he had hacked into T-Mobile's servers.
After a brief, but already intensely embarrassing search, I've failed to track down the numbers (not that I have any burning yen to speak to Ashlee Simpson, you understand), but I have found lots of "pictures from her cameraphone". Either she has some smudgy material on her lens, or the photos were quite inexpertly photoshopped together by someone who believes she uses the phone almost exclusively to record her amorous interventions with other young women. It would, of course, be ungallant to provide that link and, to be honest, I have no wish to be caught looking for it again.
Meanwhile, ponder this mystery message, which Drudge says Hilton's tormentors posted up along with the numbers: "GG FGT SLT BTCH!". It's all a bit 1999, isn't it? The last bit of good news, before I get on with something more respectable, is that the story provides further evidence for Clarke's Law. If I hadn't put this post together, I should never have known that Paris Hilton has a Wikipedia entry.
