Email Hacker Christopher Chaney Sentenced To 10 Years Imprisonment

   

Christopher Chaney, 36, who admitted to illegally accessing email accounts belonging to Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and  more than four dozen celebrities to steal their private photos and confidential documents was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison by a U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles on Monday. The man from Jacksonville, Florida was also ordered to pay a fine of more than $66,000 as restitution for his crimes.

Chaney was arrested in November 2011 and has been in custody since March. According to the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles, Chaney gained access to the email accounts of the celebrities by resetting their passwords using the "forgot your password" feature. He apparently used publicly available information on the celebrities to correctly answer the security questions needed to reset the passwords on the Gmail, Apple and Yahoo email accounts they used.
He collected numerous private photographs, business contracts, letters, scripts, driver's license information and Social Security Numbers. Wow!!!!