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Hacker sentenced to prison for role in Jennifer Lawrence nude photo theft [theguardian.com]

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 [wikipedia.org], aka "The Fappening".

Previously: Celebrity Nude Photographs - and Possibly The Flaw that Allowed Them to be Accessed [soylentnews.org]
4chan Introduces DMCA Policy [soylentnews.org]
Reddit Bans Page Where Celebrity Nude Photos were Shared [soylentnews.org]

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