AP Photo / Tammie ArroyoThe guy who hacked Miley Cyrus' email and lived to brag about it is still a person of interest as far as the FBI is concerned.
Agents raided Josh Holly's Tennessee apartment in October, seizing three computers, a phone and a Sony Handycam in the process.
A judge issued a warrant Jan. 15 to mine the gadgets for evidence and an FBI spokesman tells E! News that Holly, who last summer accessed one of Cyrus' old email accounts and plastered old racy pictures of her on the Web, is still under investigation.
"We're still working on it," said Special Agent Scott Augenbaum. "He hasn't been arrested."
While not in police custody, Holly has kept pretty busy hacking celebrities' MySpace accounts and spamming their "friends."
According to an FBI affidavit obtained by E! News, Holly "admitted he had been generating significant revenue by engaging in what is commonly called 'spamming'...by gaining unauthorized access to various Internet-based accounts."
He chose celebrities "because of the high volume of Internet traffic they attracted," the document states.
Holly remains a free man and his whereabouts are currently unknown, the FBI says.
Last month, the 19-year-old Tennessean told Wired.com's Threat Level blog, which first broke the Miley hacker story, that he had earned $110,000 (although half went to an accomplice in Israel) spamming MySpace users after hacking into accounts belonging to Chris Brown, Rihanna, Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy and various others.
Holly says he would send mass emails from the celebrities' sites "telling fans that the band would call their phone and send them a ring tone if they clicked on a link and entered their details."
He was paid between $5 and $12 per person who responded to the ads.
"Once I go to court I can't say 'not guilty.' There's no way I can get out of this at all," Holly told Threat Level. "Not even O.J.'s lawyers or Michael Jackson's lawyers can get me out of this. To be blunt, I was an idiot and I didn't delete any of my [hard drives]. I never thought they would raid me. They're going to get full proof [sic] evidence of everything that I've said I've done."
—Additional reporting by Whitney English