Hacker using Clay's Screenname dupes 
fans on the Official Fan Club site

Fans flocked to the Official Fan Club chat room Saturday night when word spread quickly around message boards that Clay was in the chat room and had asked that as many people as possible come to the chat because he had some news to share. Six hundred fans logged in to the chat within about 10 minutes.
The chat quickly became nearly impossible to read as people greeted the person who was logged in using Clay's screen name. 

On the previous night (Friday, November 10th) fans were thrilled that Clay himself had popped into the chat room to say hi,  and with typical good humor had teased the few fans who were in the room at the time and then thanked them profusely for their support, asking them to let everyone on the message boards know how much he appreciates them.  Fans who were not in the Friday night chat were eager to join Clay when they heard he had made an appearance on Saturday.

After a few minutes it became clear that it was not Clay himself, but a computer hacker who had breached the site's security and logged in impersonating Clay. The hacker posted an e-mail address asking  fans to send pictures, and made some unpleasant comments.

At 3:00 AM Sunday Morning, after returning from an event at UNC Charlotte, Clay learned of the incident and posted this in his blog on the Fan Club site.  It is published  here with his permission:
 

11/12/06 : Apology!
I really don't know what to say.
I have very little information about what may or may not have happened in the fansite chat room tonight.
I received an email from my mother this evening after returning from an event tonight at UNC Charlotte. It sort of outlined what happened on this site this evening.
I haven't actually seen the "transcript" yet, but I SINCERELY apologize to anyone who was upset, hurt, or offended by what was said.
I wish I had more information. Unfortunately, it's 3AM here in Raleigh and I have no way of addressing the issue tonight.
Rest assured that I will make sure that someone investigates fully to find out if there are any glitches in the security of the site.
For those of you who I chatted with on Friday night, it was nice to talk to you. Hopefully I can pop in and do it again sometime.
For those of you who were in the chat room tonight. I can assure you that it was not me.
I apologize again.
I can only hope that we can secure my screenname so I can continue to blog and chat on here more.
I'll let you know when I know something more.
(Please feel free to copy this blog to other message boards so that as many can see this as possible! ... go ahead... copy it... it will be our little secret! )