This is Ryan Collins, thirty of Pennsylvania, accused of having played a key role in the scandal occurred in late 2014. Collins has spent about two years deceiving his victims, selected from the entertainment world and Hollywood, in order to sottrar their data sensitive such as email addresses, passwords. The hacker posing as an operator Apple or Google in e-mail phishing, according to documents released by federal prosecutors, and once inside the account performed the theft of private content.
In this way, the thirty-six had managed to access the full backup to iCloud, the Apple cloud storage service used for most of the thefts of pictures and videos, at least according to the first information leaked to the outbreak of the scandal. In fact, according to data available today, Collins managed to break into at least 50 accounts 72 iCloud and Gmail account, an operation that will cost him his guilt in violation of the law the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Collins currently has the primary responsibility of the scandal accused by the American justice organs.
Among the charges hacking and unauthorized access to a protected computer, with a maximum potential penalty of 5 years. Prosecutors, however, are able to negotiate for a sentence of 18 months: "By getting illegal access to intimate details of the personal lives of his victims, Collins has violated their privacy and forced them to face emotional stress, embarrassment and insecurity ", he said in a press release David Bowdich, FBI assistant director in Los Angeles.
The thirty-six has not yet received it for the publication of the photographs in the various forums and online sites such as 4chan, operation that led to a huge incident visibility by exposing the stolen content to millions of visitors. The survey relating to this part of the case is still ongoing and is linked to a raid carried out in 2014 in two of Chicago specific apartments.
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