Hacker Who Leaked Celebrities' Naked Photos Gets Viii Months Inward Prison

George Garofano (left)

The quaternary celebrity hacker—who was charged before this twelvemonth alongside hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonged to Jennifer Lawrence too other Hollywood celebrities—has been sentenced to viii months inward prison.

Earlier this year, George Garofano, 26, of North Branford, admitted to illegally obtaining credentials of his victims' iCloud accounts using a phishing scheme, carried out from Apr 2013 to Oct 2014, inward which he posed equally a fellow member of Apple's safety squad too tricked victims into revealing their iCloud credentials.

Using stolen credentials, Garofano thence managed to bag victims' personal information, including their sensitive too intimate photographs too videos, from their iCloud accounts, too thence leaked them on online forums, similar 4Chan.

Among the victims were Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kirsten Dunst, Kate Upton, American Olympic golden medallist Misty May Treanor too actors Alexandra Chando, Kelli Garner too Lauren O’Neil.

While prosecutors asked for a judgement of at to the lowest degree 10 to xvi months inward prison, Garofano's lawyer requested the justice to give his customer a lighter judgement of v months inward prison theater too approximately other v months of abode confinement.

However, a federal justice at the United States of America district courtroom inward Bridgeport on Midweek sentenced Garofano to 8 months inward prison theater too 3 years of supervised unloosen afterwards his prison theater term is over.

Garofano is ane of the iv hackers who stole too leaked celebrities' nude photographs inward the 2014 event, which is good known equally "The Fappening" or "Celebgate" scandal.

The other 3 Celebgate hackers had already been sentenced for their roles inward the celebrity photograph hack:

• Edward Majerczyk, 28, was sentenced to nine months inward prison theater afterwards pleading guilty to felony hacking too violating Computer Fraud too Abuse Act.
• Ryan Collins, 36, was sentenced to xviii months inward prison theater afterwards pleading guilty to the same.
• Emilio Herrera, 32, pled guilty to the same but is withal awaiting his sentencing.

While the United States of America Attorney says there's no show that Majerczyk, Collins, or Herrera shared or posted the stolen photos online, prosecutors allege that Garofano, inward approximately instances, too traded the stolen iCloud credentials too the victims' intimate images alongside other people.

Garofano, who is released on a $50,000 bond, volition give upwards on Oct 10, 2018, to serve his prison theater sentence.

The justice has too ordered Garofano to perform lx hours of community service spell he is on supervised release.