Fourth Fappening Hacker Admits To Stealing Celebrity Pics From Icloud Accounts

Almost iii years after the massive leakage of high-profile celebrities' nude photos—well known equally "The Fappening" or "Celebgate" scandal—a 4th hacker has been charged amongst hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonged to Hollywood celebrities.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 federal courtroom has defendant George Garofano, 26, of North Branford, of violating the Computer Fraud together with Abuse Act, who had been arrested yesteryear the FBI.

Garofano has admitted to illegally obtaining credentials for his victims' iCloud accounts using a phishing scheme, which eventually allowed him to bag personal information on his victims, including sensitive together with private photographs together with videos.

Among celebrities whose nude photographs were posted online dorsum inward 2014 are Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kirsten Dunst, together with Kate Upton. Also, woman mortal victims too include American Olympic gilded medallist Misty May Treanor together with actors Alexandra Chando, Kelli Garner together with Lauren O’Neil.

Between Apr 2013 to Oct 2014, Garofano engaged inward sending phishing emails pretended to last from Apple safety squad to several celebrities, tricking them into providing their iCloud concern human relationship credentials, which they stole to access their accounts illegally.

"Garofano admitted that he sent emails to victims that appeared to last from safety accounts of Apple together with encouraged the victims to shipping him their usernames together with passwords, or to larn inward them on a third-party website, where he would after holler back them," the Justice Department said.

Besides stealing victims' personal information, including sensitive together with private photographs together with videos, from their iCloud accounts using stolen credentials, Garofano, inward roughly instances, too traded the stolen credentials, along amongst the materials he stole from the victims' accounts, amongst other individuals.

In a plea understanding signed Th inward USA District Court inward Los Angeles, Garofano agreed to plead guilty to i count of unauthorised access to a protected reckoner to obtain information, facing upward to v years inward prison.

Garofano is the 4th hacker charged inward connecter amongst the Celebgate incident. Emilio Herrera, 32, Edward Majerczyk, 28, together with Ryan Collins, 36, pleaded guilty concluding twelvemonth to beingness involved inward the celebrity photograph hack.

While Herrera is waiting for sentencing side yesteryear side month, Majerczyk was sentenced to ix months inward prison theater together with Collins was sentenced to xviii months concluding year.

The investigation into the Celebgate scandal is beingness conducted yesteryear the USA Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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