Wait, WHAT?! Grimes Just Admitted To Blackmail In WILD Interview!
perezhilton.comGrimes apparently can add the title of cyber criminal to her resume! In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the We Appreciate Power singer actually admitted to launching a cyber attack in order to blackmail a blog into taking down a story about her.
Whoa, does she know people read these things? Could she face legal consequences still?? OK, let’s rewind a bit… Related: Grimes Moved On With WHOM After Elon Musk Breakup?! If you’ve never heard of Hipster Runoff, it was a satirical blog about music and culture run by Carlos Perez — better known as “Carles” — between 2007 to 2013.
The blog went offline for a while in 2012 after being hacked by an unknown person. He told former editor-in-chief of Motherboard Derek Mead at the time: Carles said he had an idea about who may have been responsible for the attack on his site, believing it was a musician or band behind it.
However, he refused to publicly name names at the time. Although the site eventually came back online, it never quite recovered from the attack and was ultimately sold off the next year.
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