By SecurityWeek News on March 16, 2016 A Pennsylvania man was charged on Tuesday for accessing the Apple and Google email accounts of over 100 people, including several celebrities.
The man, 36-year-old Ryan Collins of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was charged with felony computer hacking related to a phishing scheme that provided him with illegal access to said accounts. He managed to access at least 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts, most of which belonged to female celebrities.
Collins signed a plea agreement to plead guilty to a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the announcement from the Department of Justice (DoJ) reads. According to the plea agreement filed on Tuesday, Collins agreed to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information.
The man admitted to have engaged in the phishing scheme from November 2012 until the beginning of September 2014, which allowed him to obtain usernames and passwords for his victims.
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Interesting article here...but I am just wondering if 18 months behind bars is enough and if this Collins will ever hack again? Sad that he's young to waste time in jail! But It's good he was caught!
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I think that yo are right, Sherry...not enough...there seems to be a reticence for courts to judge culprits in these case as they would someone who had perpetrated a physical crime on the victim...as if it being online is lessening of the crime and its impact on the victim? :(
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