If you think the one named north of the border singer who seems to be a publicity seeker now more than a singer, cares one bit she broke multiple cyber laws, she doesn’t.

Grimes 

Grimes Admits to Hacking Indie Blog Hipster Runoff

Grimes claims to have “blackmailed” the controversial blog over an unflattering post in 2012. Could there be legal ramifications?

In 2012, the controversial indie blog Hipster Runoff briefly went offline due to an apparent hacking. At the time, the site’s anonymous founder and operator Carles told Motherboard, “My hosting company and support team say that there are signs of foul play on the server, and some of the last actions before it crashed are very suspicious.” He added, “My server disk has crashed and remote backups were sabotaged.”

A decade later, Grimes is claiming responsibility for the takedown. As she explained in a recent video interview with Vanity Fair, her motivation was Hipster Runoff’s posting of a photo of her kissing a friend at a party, accompanied by a demeaning story. “I was just at a party with my friends,” she told Vanity Fair. “Someone took this photo, and it got leaked to this website called Hipster Runoff.”

She continued:

And then he [Carles], like, ran this story, and this was, like, I was trying to be like all integrity and, you know, like, start my career. And it was, like, Grimes gone wild or something. And it was just this, like, super wack, like, mean story. And it was, like, this meme that was going all over the internet.

But my friend who worked for—I will not say which video game—had access to…. OK, well I don’t wanna get him in trouble, but, anyway, we were actually able to DDoS Hipster Runoff and basically blackmail them. We were like, like, we’re not gonna let you run your—put your site back up until you take the story down. And he did, in fact, take the story down. And it was like my coolest hacker moment. So, yeah, that’s the story of this photo.

Cybersecurity expert Jackie Singh writes on her Medium blog Hacking But Legal about how Grimes’ admission is more than just a piece of frivolous indie music gossip. Theoretically, it has potential legal ramifications. – Source

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