A former consultant to celebrity private eye Bo Dietl was arrested for hacking into the e-mail account of a colleague who regularly appears on rocker Gene Simmons’ reality show, law-enforcement sources said.
Neil Diamond, 56, was busted Wednesday after Dietl was able to trace the IP address of the alleged hacker back to the man’s Staten Island home.
“This moron was using his own computer,” Dietl, 60, told The Post.
The computer thief got into the e-mail of Peter Perrotta, better known as Tony Roman on “Gene Simmons Family Jewels” and started canceling important meetings from the man’s calendar.
“I’d say, ‘You were supposed to make a meeting with Deutsche Bank and Citibank,’ ” Dietl said. “He [Perrotta] said, ‘Bo, I made the meeting, somebody canceled it.’ ”
Diamond allegedly was trying to strike out on his own and take the IT consultant’s leads with him.
“He was trying to steal his clients,” Dietl said.
Perrotta started to get suspicious, and Dietl had his computer experts trace the crime. It allegedly led to Diamond, who last accessed the account on Monday.
Diamond was charged with unauthorized use of a computer, computer tampering, criminal impersonation and aggravated harassment, records show.