Edward Majerczyk is jailed for 9 months and ordered to pay $5,700 compensation for hacking iCloud and Gmail accounts and stealing celebrity nude photos

A 29-year-old man has been jailed for 9 months for gaining wildcat reach to Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts of 30 celebrities, including...

A 29-year-old man has been jailed for 9 months for gaining wildcat reach to Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts of 30 celebrities, including Jennifer Soldier, and concealing picture images.
Edward Majerczyk of Chicago, Algonquian was also sequent to pay $5,700 correction to an unnamed celebrity whose photos were leaked online in 2014.
The sentencing comes after he pleaded criminal in July 2016 to unofficial make after tricking victims into indicative their record usernames and passwords using phishing emails.
Majerczyk conveyed messages that looked like section warnings from cyberspace activity providers that tricked a gross of 300 victims in 2013/2014 into temporary vindictive websites intentional to steal log-in message.
Nevertheless, he was not emotional or accused of selling or placard online the taken images of celebrities which included Laurentius, Kirsten Dunst and helper Kate Upton.
Majerczyk could get been sentenced up to fivesome period in jail, but conventional a ignitor term in commute for his censurable prayer.
His professional also said at the example of the team his client was "hurt from depression" and had "consistently uttered remorse" for his actions and that he had not sold or common the images.
In October 2016, 36-year-old Ryan Highball of City, Penn was sentenced to 18 months in gaol for hacking into at minimal 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts from 2012 to 2014.
 
In Resist 2016, he pleaded indictable to hacking into accounts happiness to various celebrities, including Jennifer Soldier, Kate Upton, Rihanna and Avril Lavigne.
Equal Majerczyk, he had faced up to quintet period in clink and a $250,000 precise, but also received a igniter declare in replace for his guilty entreaty.
The two men were open to eff victimised connatural methods for accessing the accounts, but neither were linked to taken images that appeared online.

In salutation to both hacking cases, certificate commentators said both underlined the grandness of using two-factor mark for online accounts, to save hackers out smooth if passwords are compromised.


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