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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @03:47PM (1 child)
i'm sure you know this, but just for the hive mind record, they like to use "hacked" for everything because they want to create apathy and they want people to believe it's unavoidable(l337 haxxors and all). this way, they are not held accountable in the court of public opinion for their ignorance/cheapness/evilness. this jedi mind trick also makes people not ask questions about the whole situation like "should i be uploading my private data to some slaveware peddling scum's server". jennifer lawrence's response is pretty illustrative of the slaves' mindset. they think "i paid good money for this shiney slaveware ( i like funding the enemies of free humanity every chance i get b/c i'm a fuckhead that way) and now that it's exposed for what it is, but i still don't understand it, i want my other masters in the government to do something about it". sad...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @06:57PM
Rumor is the guy 'hacked' *one* phone. #metoo