A hacker who specializes in attacking the personal mailboxes of entertainment stars to find private information and even “hot photos” of the stars has been arrested by the FBI.
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| Beautiful actress Scarlett Johansson was one of Chaney’s victims |
After a series of “hot photos” of famous actress Scarlett Johansson were posted on the Internet, the star asked for help from the FBI to find the culprit.
After nearly a month of investigation, on October 15, Christopher Chaney, living in Jacksonville, Florida (USA) was arrested for allegedly hacking into Scarlett Johansson’s email and publicly posting nude photos. Taken by this actress herself.
Not stopping there, the FBI also identified 50 other entertainment stars who were Chaney’s victims, including Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis, Simonre Harouche and Renee Olstead (police publicly announced the names of these stars). after obtaining their consent). There are also other stars announced by their initials, including BG, BP, DF, JA, LB and LS
To raid individual inboxes, Chaney regularly searches for detailed information. about the lives of stars in magazines and social networks like Facebook or Twitter, then guess the most likely passwords. Once Chaney figured out the password, he would set up email forwarding to send an additional copy of the incoming email to his private inbox. This allowed Chaney to continue receiving emails from the stars’ inboxes without their knowledge.
With successful access to a star’s mailbox, he can get a list of other stars’ emails stored in the “victim’s” address book and continue to find ways to hack into email accounts. new.
Particularly in the case of actress Scarlett Johansson’s hot photos, Channey distributed these photos to famous blogs rather than selling them for profit.
Chaney is facing 26 counts of identity theft, unauthorized access of a protected computer and wiretapping. If convicted of the above crimes, Chaney will spend up to 121 years in prison.
Chaney is currently on bail after paying a $10,000 bail, but must still comply with court requirements such as not being allowed to use computers or any devices connected to the Internet, nor moved out of central Florida while the case was being investigated and awaiting trial.
