Everyone has a MySpace profile, and that includes celebrities, but due to privacy settings not everyone's profile is viewable to the general public. That, however, is apparently not the case as Canadian computer technician Byron Ng has discovered a security hole in Yahoo's integration with MySpace that makes it easy to view the photos for any profile.

To prove this was able to be done, Ng snagged some photos from both Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton's MySpace profiles.

Thanks to a flaw in "data portability", a fad that allows personal information to be shared between social networks and websites, we've got this major security hole that allows anyone to peek at your profile whether you like it or not. It appears that while various companies have been quick to integrate and make it easier for us to add friends to our profiles , they've skimped on security.

Check out the full batch of photos snagged here at Valleywag.

And if you're looking to sneak a peek at your favorite celebrity's private photos, or your secret crush or enemies, Ng has posted instructions on how to take advantage of the security hole. But act fast because MySpace and Yahoo are sure to patch it up soon.

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