Hacker Who Stole Celebrity Emails, Sexual Activity Tapes, Pic Scripts Gets Five Years Inwards Prison

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hacker who was arrested finally yr for hacking into celebrities' electronic mail accounts to pocket the unreleased flick in addition to boob tube scripts, their individual messages, in addition to sexual activity tapes to sell them has finally been sentenced 5 years inwards prison.

Alonzo Knowles, a 24-year-old Bahamian man, was convicted past times U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer inwards Manhattan on Tuesday.

Knowles, who maintained a listing of emails in addition to telephone numbers of 130 celebrities, pleaded guilty inwards May to charges of identity theft in addition to criminal copyright infringement.

The judgement is twice longer than the total of years the federal sentencing guidelines suggested, every bit the gauge felt that Knowles "would move a clear in addition to introduce danger to commit the really same law-breaking again," the New York Times reports.

The hacker expressed remorse inwards courtroom in addition to had already handed over unreleased scripts, songs, in addition to $1,900 inwards cash.

The regime arrested Knowles piece of cake Dec in addition to seized his laptop that was afterwards destroyed past times investigators. The regime flora folders containing stolen information that includes:

• Social Security numbers for actors in addition to professional person athletes
• Private, explicit images
• Scripts for unreleased TV shows in addition to movies in addition to fifty-fifty contract documents
• Emails in addition to telephone numbers of at to the lowest degree 130 celebrities
• Sex tapes of celebrities

The hacker was arrested after flight to New York from the Commonwealth of the Bahamas to sell fifteen flick in addition to TV shows scripts in addition to the Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of a flick actress in addition to ii athletes to an metro U.S. Department of Homeland Security agent for $80,000.

According to prosecutors, Knowles appeared anxious to dice on exploiting celebrities 1 time released fifty-fifty after pleading guilty.

The gauge cited the majority the hacker claimed he would someday write to "shake upwardly Hollywood," alongside plans to sell them at $35 per copy, inwards which Knowles said: "When I larn out, I'm going to milk shiver upwardly Hollywood."

The book, Knowles claimed, volition incorporate information that tin "jeopardize their careers, their security, in addition to their personal relationships."

The affected celebrities were non identified, though the gauge acknowledged that the courtroom received a controversy from 20th Century Fox. However, Knowles apologized for his ship on Tuesday, maxim he regretted "the stupid things I did in addition to said."