Remember those sexy photos of Miley Cyrus that hit the internet earlier this year? Turns out they were from a “hacker” who called himself TrainReq. His real name was Josh Holly and he is 19-years-old.

And he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids and their dog his constant bragging about his “accomplishments”…

WIRED reports:

The hacker, Josh Holly, repeatedly bragged online about breaking into the Disney star’s e-mail account and stealing her photos. He also gave interviews to bloggers and others and boasted that authorities would never find him because he moved so often. [Last month, Holly contacted Threat Level seeking to have an article written about him here.]
But this morning the FBI did find him and, after talking with him for more than an hour about his exploits, served him with a search warrant and a list of items to be seized (which was posted at the hacking site digitalgangster.com after Holly showed it to a friend).
When agents finally left his apartment after conducting an extensive search, they had three computers and Holly’s phone, among other things. Hours after the raid, Holly phoned Threat Level from his sister’s phone to report what had occurred. He hasn’t been arrested or charged with a crime yet.

This kid is far from genius and seems to suffer from the same proclivities that bring down most internet hackers: the search for fame.

It’s odd how the same desire motivates celebrity-hackers and the celebrities they hack. I still remember cruising the Something Awful forums a few years back when someone realized they could hack into Paris Hilton’s sidekick. Yeah, I called Lindsay Lohan like the rest of the douchebags, but I also ghosted the forums where the responsible parties were all-too quick to explain how awesome they were.

Holly is no different. Once again from WIRED:

Holly told Threat Level he stole about a dozen Cyrus pictures but only published the most provocative ones. He said he got access to Cyrus’s Gmail account after obtaining unauthorized access to a MySpace administrative panel where he found passwords for MySpace accounts stored in cleartext. He found the password Cyrus used for her MySpace account — Loco92 — and tried it on a Gmail account Cyrus was known to use. The password worked on that account as well, but only for a couple of weeks before it was changed.

Quick! Everyone try that password on Miley Cyrus anything!

Seriously, if the dude didn’t want to get caught, the simple thing to do would be to get comfortable with his anonymity. Now he’s just a 19-year-old kid who has to conference with the FBI and we’ll all forget about him tomorrow.