Hacker hits film critic Roger Ebert's GMail account

A hacker hijacked this week the Gmail account of American film critic Roger Ebert, sending an email to several recipients using the compromised account. The hacker, identified only as Rapt0r, also changed the password, downloaded a docoment from Google Docs, and donwloaded some 5,000 emails, HackerLeaks said. "(We) received in our anonymous submission box a zip file containing over 5,000 E-Mail messages and the screenshots ... and a single rather bizarre document which we are presently analyzing," HackerLeaks said on Wednesday. Worse for Ebert, the hacker even sent emails "with his exploit from WITHIN Roger Ebert's Gmail account." A separate report on The Hacker News said that it was one of the recipients of the email from Rapt0r using Ebert's hacked Gmail account. "I am NOT Roger Ebert the famous film critic but I AM a Hacker who got inside his E-Mail account. In fact I have downloaded all his messages, and I am writing this to you from inside his G-Mail account," it quoted the hacker as saying. The Hacker News said the hacker also offered more details on a site called www.hackerleaks.com, but the domain appeared to be vacant as of 4pm. — TJD, GMA News