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The following was posted in the forums on the official site:
Dear Friends and Fans,

Yesterday afternoon, an attacker gained unauthorized access to Chris Cornell's MySpace account. The attacker, pretending to be Chris, sent several bulletins in a short amount of time to all of Chris' friends telling everyone to sign-up for "Free Ringtones" and possibly become one of 10 fans selected for an all expenses paid trip to see Chris perform live. It then had a signup for $9.99 for a monthly service which we assume is fraudulent.

If you signed up for the service we strongly urge you to immediately contact your mobile service provider to inform them of what transpired. Additionally, if you were affected, please contact us directly (support@chriscornell.com) and let us know.

Please note that we will never send multiple bulletins in a very short time-frame to everyone and we will never knowingly urge fans to sign up for free services that secretly try to enter you into a subscription based contract.

Chris Cornell and his team enjoy running contests for fans and giving away opportunities like Meet & Greets, concert tickets. etc. With that said, please be aware of the sites you are being directed to, e-mail addresses that you should contact, and the amount of information being requested.

You can also check Chris' MySpace Blog or his Official Site to ensure an offer/contest is listed there. If anything seems odd or "out of place" please feel free to contact us at support@chriscornell.com.

If you come across a site pretending to be Chris Cornell or are contacted directly by "Chris Cornell" in e-mail, private messages, etc. please contact us and report the situation.

We want to thank all of you who diligently contacted us about the situation. Your notifications allowed us and MySpace to act very quickly and we sincerely apologize to everyone for this situation. We are still looking into it, but please rest assured that we are doing everything possible to prevent things of this nature from happening again.

Your patience and support is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

-The Cornell Team