{"id":10318,"date":"2015-01-21T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2015-01-21T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T15:26:41","slug":"arrested-in-madonna-demo-leak-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2015\/arrested-in-madonna-demo-leak-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in Madonna demo leak case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Israel have arrested a man on suspicion of hacking into Madonna’s computer and releasing demo versions of songs on her new album Rebel Heart<\/em><\/strong> online, according to reports by\u00a0YNet.com<\/a><\/strong> and the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Local TV Channel 2<\/strong> news reports that the 39-year-old was arrested Wednesday following a month-long investigation involving a private investigation firm and the cyber crime unit of Israel’s Lahav 433, a crime-fighting organization comparable to the FBI.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by Lahav 433<\/strong>, the suspect \u201cbroke into the personal computers of several international artists over the past few months and stole promotional final-cut singles which have yet to be released and traded them online for a fee.” It added: “In light of the findings of the investigation the unit collaborated closely with the FBI, with suspicion of even more break-ins to computers owned by unknown international artists, stealing and selling their works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tel Aviv-based investigations firm Wizman Yaar Investigations<\/strong> released a statement saying it began looking into the case after receiving a complaint from Guy Oseary<\/strong>‘s office. According to the statement, it sent an agent to New York \u201cto check the singer\u2019s personal computer, confirming there was indeed a break in from a computer in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The firm said it then traced the source of the computer to Tel Aviv and contacted Lahav 433, which continued the formal investigation. The resulting in a warrant to search the suspect’s home, culminating in the arrest. Police searched the suspect’s home, seizing computers and media storage devices., the report says.<\/span><\/p>\n

The name of the 39-year-old suspect was not immediately released by police, who said its cyber unit had carried out an investigation along with the FBI following a complaint from a Madonna representative in Israel.<\/p>\n

“He is suspected of computer hacking, copyright violation and fraudulent receipt of goods,” a police spokesman said, declining to confirm that Madonna was a target.<\/p>\n

“During the investigation it appeared the suspect had broken into the computers of a number of international artists, stole unreleased demos and final tracks and sold them over the internet,” the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

No charges have yet been filed against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police in Israel have arrested a man on suspicion of hacking into Madonna’s computer and releasing demo versions of songs on her new album Rebel Heart<\/em><\/strong> online, according to reports by YNet.com<\/strong> and the Hollywood Reporter<\/strong>. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/rebel-heart_11.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eFGP-2Gq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10323,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions\/10323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}