The FBI has arrested and charged a Florida human in a investigate of email hacking that targeted Hollywood celebrities, US law coercion officials say.
Christopher Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville, was arrested on Wednesday on charges stemming from a year-long investigate well known as Operation Hackerazzi.
He is indicted of hacking in to more than 50 email accounts.
According to an FBI statement, Mr Chaney offering up photos from the accounts to superstar blog sites.
He is moreover purported to have stolen financial data and movie scripts by hacking email accounts.
"Unfortunately, Mr Chaney was able to access bare photos of a few of the celebrities and a few of them were uploaded on the internet," US Attorney Andre Birotte Jr said.
Mr Birotte fixed that a not long ago circulated bare print of movie star Scarlett Johansson is segment of the investigation.
Mr Chaney is charged with hacking Google, Apple and Yahoo email accounts.
He set up any account to deliver a duplicate of every email received to himself, according to the assign piece problems by a Los Angeles splendid jury .
He faces up to 121 years in jail if convicted on all 26 charges, inclusive accessing and deleterious computers, handle drumming and identity theft.
The Florida human allegedly used several online aliases, inclusive "anonygrrl" and "jaxjaguars911".
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