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Hacker sentenced to prison for role in Jennifer Lawrence nude photo theft
A hacker was sentenced to eight months in prison on Wednesday for a scheme that exposed intimate photos of the actor Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities.
George Garofano, 26, was accused of illegally hacking the private Apple iCloud accounts of 240 people, including Hollywood stars as well as average internet users, allowing their nude photos and private information to be spread around the internet.
He was one of four people charged in the 2014 hacking scandal, in which private photos of Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst and others were published online. Lawrence said at the time the invasion was equivalent to a sex crime, and called for tougher laws.
A federal judge at a US district court in Bridgeport, Connecticut, ordered Garofano to serve the prison term followed by three years of supervised release.
iCloud leaks of celebrity photos, aka "The Fappening".
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday September 02 2018, @01:01PM (4 children)
You had it right in the first line. There's several billion people on the planet, and a lot of bots. Valuable insecure systems will be hacked eventually, especially if social engineering is all it takes. Do these four "hackers" suck, or are they just inevitable?
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @01:47PM (2 children)
They do suck, since they got caught.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday September 02 2018, @01:57PM
Good point. They broke Rule #1.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05 2018, @01:02PM
I don't suck. I get hair in my teeth then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @01:58PM
They inevitable suck. Or perhaps they suckly unavoid.