Hackers Re-Route Bieber Fans to Porn Sites

Fans sent to porn sites; tour contest hacked
By Sarah Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 6, 2010 7:00 AM CDT
Hackers Re-Route Bieber Fans to Porn Sites
Justin Bieber performs in Trenton, N.J. on June 24, 2010.   (AP Photo/Tim Larsen)

The Justin Bieber backlash continues: First, hackers yesterday sent teenybopper fans looking for their Bieber YouTube fix to porn sites instead, the New York Post reports, while a pop-up claimed the star had died in a car crash. Then the bulletin board 4chan rigged Bieber's My World Tour contest—in which fans vote where he goes next—to send him to North Korea. Since most people there don't have Internet access, it's pretty clear the contest was hacked, Mashable notes. Israel had the next most votes.
(More Justin Bieber stories.)

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