December 3, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Just proving that none of us are safe in this technology driven era, celebrity laptops too, find themselves attacked by hackers operating around the world. According to reports circulating in the media, Lady GaGa and Justin Timberlake among several other pop stars from the United States were the latest victims of vice of hacking. If reports circulating in the media are to be believed, the hackers, identified as one 17-year-old and another 23-year-old boys from Germany, hacked the laptops of several pop artistes including Lady GaGa and Justin Timberlake because they wanted to gain access to unreleased music content, intimate pictures of the celebrities, their financial details and personal mails.

Though the media is not sure about which music the German boys could lay their hands upon, it has been reported that one of the laptops revealed pictures of singer Ke$ha in a state of near nudity. If you are thinking that the German boys used the hacked content to make money for themselves by selling it to various websites, you are thinking wrong. It is being said that the two young hackers from Germany are using the material available in their hands to blackmail the victimized artistes. In fact there have been reports of blackmail calls being made to Ke$ha.

The question often arises as to how did they gain access to private computers? According to reports, the hackers made use of a program called Trojans to break through to the private content of these celebrities. The two boys may be very happy about their priced haul, but will they be able to escape the law for long?

--Sampurn Wire