Edward Majerczyk (28) of Chicago, Illinois consented to concede last Friday to hacking into the Apple iCloud and Gmail records of more than 300 casualties, including 30 superstars, between November 2013 and August 2014, government prosecutors said.
Like Ryan Collins, Majerczyk utilized phishing plan to trap superstars into entering their record certifications into sham "security" locales and after that got to private and naked photos and recordings of famous people.
The programmers then released a huge number of express photographs of Hollywood performing artists on the Internet in September 2014 that later known as The Fappening (or 'Celebgate') rupture.
"This defendant not only hacked into email accounts — he hacked into his victims' private lives, causing embarrassment and lasting harm," FBI's Deirdre Fike said in a statement. "As most of us use devices containing private information, cases like this remind us to protect our data."
Here's How The Fappening Happened:
In October of 2014, the FBI assaulted the place of Majerczyk and said that he enlisted a progression of false email accounts like 'appleprivacysecurity@gmail.com', like Apple's authentic appleprivacysecurity@icloud.com account.
Majerczyk then utilized this fake email location to send lance phishing messages to a few big names, deceiving them into giving him their record certifications.
As per the powers, the suspect got to 330 records more than 600 unique events from November 23, 2013, through August 2014.
Majerczyk faces a most extreme of 5 years in jail for disregarding the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Comparative charges were likewise brought a couple of months prior against a 36-year-old Pennsylvania man, Ryan Collins, who conceded in March to the same offense for a situation originating from the same examination.
As per the FBI, Collins got to no less than 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts, the majority of which had a place with female superstars.
In any case, prosecutors said that powers have no confirmation connecting Majerczyk or Collins to the real hole. Likewise, there is no reference in the Department of Justice (DoJ) articulation that recommends they cooperated.
Government prosecutors charged Majercyzk in Los Angeles, yet his case will be exchanged to Illinois for the entering of the supplication assention and sentencing, which are relied upon to be held following couple of weeks.
Collins has likewise not yet been sentenced, however he consented to a suggested jail term of year and a half
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