Two Men Charged with Extortion Against MySpace.com

Two New York men were arrested in Los Angeles and charged with trying to extort $150,000 from the popular social networking site MySpace.com, prosecutors announced. Shaun Harrison, 18, and Saverio Mondelli, 19, both from Long Island's Suffolk County, allegedly hacked MySpace by exploiting a service vulnerability that let them steal users' personal information.

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