CelebGate, violated the account of the star Eighteen months in prison for the hacker – Corriere della Sera

Eighteen months in prison for having laundered over one hundred online profiles. In both amounts, the penalty to Ryan Collins of the american, 36-year-old became famous for having entered into the online accounts of several celebrities giving away to the notorious Celebgate. According to the indictment, in less than two years, between November 2012 and September 2014, the man was able to get a username and password at least 50 accounts, iCloud and 72 of Gmail, including those of Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, Kate Upton, of which she had stolen, and the photos and videos that then were finished online.

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From Jennifer Lawrence to Scarlett Johannsson at Pippa Middleton: all the vip finished in the crosshairs of hackers

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The system of Collins was simple but effective. The hacker chose carefully his targets, scovava their e-mail addresses and finally sent him the fake email in which he asked the victims to follow a link where they would have entered your username and password. In short, a phishing the old style, as we receive so many every day. Do you want to the carelessness of the star or the letters fake to the dot that seemed to be coming from Google or Apple, in the end many have fallen into the trap. At this point, Collins had everything she needed came in the victim’s account and copied all the data including photos and video of naked, which were then regularly republished by the online site The Fappening.

it is Not Apple’s fault

The only winner in this story is Apple. In August 2014, during the major release of the photos online, was accused of having adopted a poor safety systems for their accounts to iCloud, accusation promptly rejected, and that now turns out to be false. As we have seen, in fact, were the victims themselves to give Collins a username and password.

Not only

The u.s. is not the only responsible for the account said of the star. His countryman, the republics of the former Edward Majerczyk will go on trial in January with the same accusations. The penalty in this case is from one to five years in prison. It then speaks of another man, of which, however, was not revealed the identity.

October 28, 2016 (change on October 28, 2016 | 16:27)

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