Two American teens are facing extortion charges against the hugely popular MySpace service.

The alleged blackmailers were Shaun Harrison, 18, and Saverio Mondelli, 19, of Suffolk County, N.Y.

MySpace was under threat from the two teenagers who asked for $150,000 from the company to prevent them from releasing information on how to steal personal information from MySpace users.

Mercury News reports:

After MySpace booted them from the site, the pair threatened to distribute a foolproof method for stealing information unless MySpace paid them $150,000, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

Mondelli and Harrison were arrested Friday when they traveled to Los Angeles to allegedly collect the payoff. Instead, they were taken into custody by undercover officers from the multi-agency electronic crimes task force who posed as MySpace employees.

Each was charged with two felony counts of illegal computer access and one count of sending a threatening letter for extortion and attempted extortion. They face more than four years in state prison if convicted of all charges, prosecutors said.