Easy Access: Salma Hayek’s Mobile Me Account Breached

Nicole Martinelli ()

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Call it hacking, or just common sense: getting into actress Salma Hayek’s Mobileme account was apparently as easy as knowing her birthday and her favorite starring role.

An anonymous post on imageboard 4chan.org  provided MobileMe login details for Hayek:

Go to me.com, forgot password, type (sorry, you need Javascript to see this e-mail address)
Her //snip//
Answer to change password question is: //snip//

Voilà: a peek at Hayek’s iPhone apps downloaded from iTunes — including restaurant finder Urbanspoon,  Shazam and the Say Who voice recognition dialer — plus emails from uber-magnate husband François-Henri Pinault and an invite to America Ferrera’s 25th birthday party.

Wonder if iPhone loving twitterer Ashton Kutcher’s next…

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Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco native who has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. You can find her on Twitter , Facebook and Google+.

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  • Ben Smith

    Puerto Rican!

  • macandal

    I know you didn’t do this. I know these details were listed elsewhere. But did you have to reprint them here? I’m not even sure if this article deserved any more attention. We may find this amusing because it happened to a celebrity, but I’m not sure you’d be happy if it happened to you or any of us for that matter. Shame, shame, shame…

  • http://macauctions.co.uk Tom_Mac_Auctions

    HA HA this is prity funny, its crazy how easy it is to get into someones account. Would be good to get into Ashtons account and punk him.

    Tom

  • ItsGene

    I don’t know what to say to this post, I’m wracking my brain trying to think of ways to express my disappointment — no, my anger — at your publishing of these personal details.
    You could have written a post telling us that a) Salma Hayek’s account was breached, and b) we should use strong passwords, etc.
    Instead, you not only published the details of what was found by breaching her account, but you actually told us HOW TO DO IT!
    This is beyond the pale, inexcusable, and the sort of thing you’d expect to find on a gossip blog or teen’s MySpace page. I’m flabbergasted at this entry and hope I’m not the only one.

  • Colin

    Wooo! Invasion of privacy of a celebrity with her log on details!

    This post is disgusting.

    Seriously, find something worthwhile to post. I’m sure you would love your log on information posted for the world to see (I mean, it’s only fair, right? To treat others as you would like to be treated…Sound familiar?). This is no better then what those tabloids report.

    Nice work!

  • Peruchito

    thats not nice…

  • http://www.cultofmac.com Leigh McMullen

    I don’t think Nicole posted those credentials with any malicious intent. I suspect, she, like all of us have at one time or another, just copied and pasted factual information for her article.

    Heck, reading it, I didn’t even consider that the credentials as posted might still be usable.

  • NewJohnny

    You even posted her email address as a mailto link. Way to bless her with even more spam. You suck.