FBI arrests alleged celebrity e-mail hacker
The FBI today arrested a Florida man accused of hacking into e-mail accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, and dozens of other celebrities, and releasing stolen photos of them to the Web.
Authorities arrested Christopher Chaney,nike air hypershox 2011 35,Our high risk merchant account was down for about an hour and a half, of Jacksonville, Fla., as part of an 11-month investigation officials dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi," according to a statement from the FBI in Los Angeles.
The 26-count indictment, unsealed yesterday, charges Chaney with unauthorized access of protected computers, wiretapping, identity theft, and damaging computers. He faces as much as 120 years in prison if convicted of all charges. Officials said they will likely request he be transferred to Los Angeles to face prosecution.
While officials said they had identified more than 50 victims, only five were identified by name: Johansson, Aguilera, Kuni, Simone Harouche, and Renee Olstead. Six other alleged victims were identified by initials: B.P., J.A.,,steeler jerseys cheap, L.B., L.S., D.F.,wholesales mac Lip gloss,, and B.G.
The FBI alleges that Chaney mined unnamed public sources for information about the victims and used aliases, including "trainreqsuckswhat" and "anonygrrl,,Authentic NFL Jerseys," to gain control of their e-mail accounts. It's not clear exactly how that was accomplished.
Chaney allegedly found additional victims from the address book on the compromised computers, used victim's identities to access computers, intercepted e-mails, and had e-mails that were sent to victims automatically forwarded to an account he controlled, according to the indictment. "This form of wiretapping allowed Chaney to continually receive victims' e-mails even after a password had been reset," the FBI said.
The FBI today arrested a Florida man accused of hacking into e-mail accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, and dozens of other celebrities, and releasing stolen photos of them to the Web.
Authorities arrested Christopher Chaney,nike air hypershox 2011 35,Our high risk merchant account was down for about an hour and a half, of Jacksonville, Fla., as part of an 11-month investigation officials dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi," according to a statement from the FBI in Los Angeles.
The 26-count indictment, unsealed yesterday, charges Chaney with unauthorized access of protected computers, wiretapping, identity theft, and damaging computers. He faces as much as 120 years in prison if convicted of all charges. Officials said they will likely request he be transferred to Los Angeles to face prosecution.
While officials said they had identified more than 50 victims, only five were identified by name: Johansson, Aguilera, Kuni, Simone Harouche, and Renee Olstead. Six other alleged victims were identified by initials: B.P., J.A.,,steeler jerseys cheap, L.B., L.S., D.F.,wholesales mac Lip gloss,, and B.G.
The FBI alleges that Chaney mined unnamed public sources for information about the victims and used aliases, including "trainreqsuckswhat" and "anonygrrl,,Authentic NFL Jerseys," to gain control of their e-mail accounts. It's not clear exactly how that was accomplished.
Chaney allegedly found additional victims from the address book on the compromised computers, used victim's identities to access computers, intercepted e-mails, and had e-mails that were sent to victims automatically forwarded to an account he controlled, according to the indictment. "This form of wiretapping allowed Chaney to continually receive victims' e-mails even after a password had been reset," the FBI said.
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