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  • SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26 2006 10:00 AM

Linkin Park Fan Allegedly Hacked Into Singer's Phone

Submitted by Alyk

Edited by Rahodeb

Tags: Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, Hack, Devon Townsend

A crazed Linkin Park fan found herself in the slammer after hacking into singer Chester Bennington’s email and cell phone accounts. Devon Townsend probably now regrets listening to “Numb” hundreds of times while whacking-off over a photo of Bennington (Ok, I made that up, but you know she most likely did some dumb shit like that). Anyhoo, police arrested the Albuquerque, NM woman last weekend, claiming she used her work computer at Sandia National Laboratories, a national security support center, to gain access to private cell phone records of Bennington. Townsend also used the same computer to access the email account of Bennington’s wife.

Court documents allege that Townsend obtained personal phone numbers that Bennington had called and pictures he had taken with his camera phone. Authorities believe she also hacked into the e-mail account of Bennington's wife, Talinda, a former Playboy model, and has made threatening phone calls to her.

Talinda Bennington reported the security breach on the couple's Verizon Wireless online account last month, saying that she was worried about a "stalker," according to a federal affadavit. Police traced the activity to Townsend, who admitted to the online hacking and the threatening calls, the affadavit states. A search of Townsend's house then turned up Linkin Park memorabilia.


Bennington’s reps declined to comment on the crazy broad.


Bennington and wife.

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mydogfarted

mydogfarted

Oakland, NJ
June 2003

NOV 26, 2006 08:35 PM

Let me guess... there were actually only two phone numbers but several remixes of those two. surreal

SocietysPliers

SocietysPliers

Ocala, FL
October 2004

NOV 26, 2006 08:37 PM

StarBelliedBoy said:

SilverShadow said:
all linkin park makes me think of is the time some guy came into my store and asked for their cd. i pronounced in lincoln park, like a bajillion other people, and he jumped down my throat and gave me this huge lecture about how to say it right.

Uhhhh... how DO you pronounce Lincoln?

Do you pronounce it phonetically? Like LIN- koln?

Uhhhh... dude, that's a litlte off.

I'm pretty sure "Linkin" is the way to pronounce it.

I was thinkin' (or is that thincoln?) the same thing. You too seem to feel the need to comment on all the stuff that seems odd. Must be something in the Philadelphia (my birthplace) air.

SocietysPliers

SocietysPliers

Ocala, FL
October 2004

NOV 26, 2006 09:46 PM

unravled

unravled

Portland, OR
August 2003

NOV 26, 2006 10:15 PM

SinisterRouge said:
The majority of people who comment on Emo's dont even fully understand the real meaning behind it!!! Angers me....



Um...what?

girlafraid

girlafraid

I'm lost
October 2005

NOV 26, 2006 10:19 PM

I thought the story was talking about the singer for SYL too! Spelling's different though.
Yeah, it should be a crime to own or play that band's CDs. Not surprised this happened in NM. Who said the wife was arm candy? Scary...

flyonwall

flyonwall

London, ON
October 2004

NOV 27, 2006 01:40 AM

mydogfarted said:
Let me guess... there were actually only two phone numbers but several remixes of those two. surreal



*applauds*

SinisterRouge

SinisterRouge

United Kingdom
November 2006

NOV 27, 2006 06:38 AM

ortho7117 said:

SinisterRouge said:
The majority of people who comment on Emo's dont even fully understand the real meaning behind it!!! Angers me....



The majority of people who use apostrophes don't even fully understand where they are supposed to go!!! This makes me very emotional....



The majority of people who actually read this then bothered to moan about apostrophes and where or where not they should go really need to chill....ohh sorry....that was just you

Ceciley

Ceciley

Santa Fe, NM
September 2005

NOV 27, 2006 08:55 AM

A good majority of American's don't even know that New Mexico is a state. Silly monkeys. ooo aaa

smile

-cecilia.

Keri

Keri

SUICIDEGIRL

Virginia, USA

NOV 27, 2006 08:55 AM

Yeah...I can't really think of another way to pronounce "lincoln/linkin" either....but anyways, I actually like Linkin Park. They're pretty cheesy but that's part of their appeal in my eyes. Yay for crazy stalker chicks for consistantly providing me with entertainment

ckdexterhaven

ckdexterhaven

USA
December 2005

NOV 27, 2006 02:23 PM

SilverShadow said:
all linkin park makes me think of is the time some guy came into my store and asked for their cd. i pronounced in lincoln park, like a bajillion other people, and he jumped down my throat and gave me this huge lecture about how to say it right.


What's the difference? Unless you were enunciating the hell out of the "L" in Lincoln.

StarBelliedBoy

StarBelliedBoy

Philadelphia, PA
December 2003

NOV 27, 2006 02:45 PM

BernardShakey said:

SilverShadow said:
all linkin park makes me think of is the time some guy came into my store and asked for their cd. i pronounced in lincoln park, like a bajillion other people, and he jumped down my throat and gave me this huge lecture about how to say it right.


What's the difference? Unless you were enunciating the hell out of the "L" in Lincoln.



Wait, maybe they want it to be Lin-kin, instead of Link-in. That's retarded, if so.

Tritone

Tritone

Saint Paul, MN
May 2004

NOV 27, 2006 04:11 PM

ortho7117 said:
Um, and she didn't really "hack" into his accounts. She abused access privileges. No hacking required.



So I'm not the only one who saw the title and said, "Obsessive Linkin Park fan that can hack? That's unpossible." Excellent.

undershaker

undershaker

Milwaukee, WI
November 2004

NOV 27, 2006 08:45 PM

Linkin Park's second brush with a federal gov't. I recall the Romanian Health & Consumer Protection Ministry using a Meteora track's instrumental breakdown in a PSA.

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