Jennifer Lawrence, Kaley Cuoco and Kirsten Dunst were some of the celebrities targeted.<\/p>\n
Phishing emails<\/strong><\/p>\n At the time, Jennifer Lawrence called the hack a “sex crime”.<\/p>\n The FBI found evidence of Ryan Collins’ involvement when they analysed ‘phishing’ emails the celebrities had received.<\/p>\n The emails appeared to be from legitimate companies like Apple and Google, and asked the celebrities to supply their passwords.<\/p>\n They were a scam, and Collins used the information they supplied to access their personal images.<\/p>\n The images were then posted on internet forums like 4chan and Reddit.<\/p>\n Reddit later banned any threads containing the pictures.<\/p>\n Other celebrities, including American gymnast McKayla Maroney, were underage at the time of the hack.<\/p>\n Reddit stated that any users posting her pictures would be banned for distributing child pornography.<\/p>\n The evidence links Collins to the phishing hack, but not to the public posting of images.<\/p>\n The case is being transferred to a federal court near his home in Pennsylvania where he’ll be sentenced later.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The man charged with hacking celebrities’ nude pictures has pleaded guilty. Ryan Collins, a 36-year-old father from Pennsylvania, admitted to stealing the pictures two years ago. He used a phishing scam to get celebrities’ passwords and access their iCloud and Gmail accounts. There’s no evidence he posted the pictures on the internet, but prosecutors want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":217082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kirsten](\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/110BB\/production\/_89791896_celebhack.jpg\")