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Judge sentences celebrity hacker to five years in prison
A federal judge has sentenced Alonzo Knowles, the Bahamian man who hacked into celebs' emails to get scripts, secrets and sensitive photos, to five years in prison. That's twice longer than what the federal sentencing guidelines suggested, because Judge Paul A. Engelmayer felt that Knowles "would be a clear and present danger to commit the very same crime again." While the hacker expressed remorse in court ("What I did was wrong. I could have ruined people's lives," he said), he sent out some emails from jail that cemented the judge's decision to hand him a longer sentence.
Man pleads guilty to hacking celebrity accounts for photos
The celebrities affected by the massive nude photo leak in 2014 got some answers today. A 36-year-old man from Pennsylvania named Ryan Collins has been charged with computer hacking felony for infiltrating over 50 iCloud and 72 Gmail accounts. He has also agreed to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer, according to the US Attorney's Office of the Central District of California. In his plea deal, Collins admitted to executing a phishing scheme to obtain celebs' usernames and passwords from November 2012 to September 2014. Once he got access to their accounts, he searched for and stole explicit images. In some cases, he even downloaded people's entire iCloud backups.
