Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 federal courtroom has defendant George Garofano, 26, of North Branford, of violating the Computer Fraud as well as 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 as well as private photographs as well as videos.
Among celebrities whose nude photographs were posted online dorsum inwards 2014 are Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kirsten Dunst, as well as Kate Upton. Also, woman soul victims likewise include American Olympic aureate medallist Misty May Treanor as well as actors Alexandra Chando, Kelli Garner as well as Lauren O’Neil.
Between Apr 2013 to Oct 2014, Garofano engaged inwards sending phishing emails pretended to travel from Apple safety squad to several celebrities, tricking them into providing their iCloud job concern human relationship credentials, which they stole to access their accounts illegally.
"Garofano admitted that he sent emails to victims that appeared to travel from safety accounts of Apple as well as encouraged the victims to ship him their usernames as well as passwords, or to run inwards them on a third-party website, where he would afterward recollect them," the Justice Department said.Besides stealing victims' personal information, including sensitive as well as private photographs as well as videos, from their iCloud accounts using stolen credentials, Garofano, inwards simply about instances, likewise traded the stolen credentials, along alongside the materials he stole from the victims' accounts, alongside other individuals.
In a plea understanding signed Th inwards the US District Court inwards Los Angeles, Garofano agreed to plead guilty to 1 count of unauthorised access to a protected estimator to obtain information, facing upwardly to five years inwards prison.
Garofano is the 4th hacker charged inwards connector alongside the Celebgate incident. Emilio Herrera, 32, Edward Majerczyk, 28, as well as Ryan Collins, 36, pleaded guilty concluding yr to existence involved inwards the celebrity photograph hack.
While Herrera is waiting for sentencing adjacent month, Majerczyk was sentenced to nine months inwards prison theatre as well as Collins was sentenced to eighteen months concluding year.
The investigation into the Celebgate scandal is existence conducted yesteryear the the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
