The whole truth behind the scandalous theft and dissemination of nude celebrity photos
Anne Hathaway, Emma Stone or Jennifer Lawrence were some of the celebrities who were victims of the invasion of their privacy that shook the world
It happened in 2011, when a group of hackers announced that they had stolen some photos of Scarlett Johansson, Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Emma Caulfield or Addison Timlin, Kate Upton, Kaley Cuoco or Kirsten Dust, among others, naked or in intimate situations of their iPhone. Images in which Johansson, who at that time was recently divorced from Ryan Reynolds, appeared with her back to the mirror showing her butt or lying on the bed and her naked breasts can be seen in the foreground.
At that time, the hackers announced that they would sell the rest of the photographs to the highest bidder on the Internet to be marketed through sites dedicated to pornography with famous girls. Some images that did not see the light because the person responsible for the theft was arrested before the sale.
"Celebgate"
However, this event was just a small preview of everything that was about to happen, because in September 2014 the "Celebgate" took place, a scandal that shocked the whole world by leaking dozens of intimate images of American actresses and celebrities that were released via the internet after their mobile devices were 'hacked'.
Jennifer Lawrence was one of the most affected as a large number of highly committed snapshots were published that showed the actress scantily clad, in bathing suits or even partially nude. Three years later, the interpreter still had not recovered from the scandal generated by the hacked photos in which she posed naked and provocative for her boyfriend, as she confessed in an interview for "Vanity Fair" in which she broke her silence and spoke for the first time about the traumatic incident. Everything I tried to write made me cry or angry. I started writing an apology, but I have nothing to apologize for. I was in a beautiful, healthy and great relationship for four years. It was a long-distance relationship, and the option is for your boyfriend to watch porn or to watch you "and she assured that" When the hacking happened, I felt so violated that I can't even put it into words. "
The 27-year-old interpreter was the first victim among the more than 100 celebrities who were attacked by hackers, including Anne Hathaway, Selena Gómez, Emma Watson, Amanda Seyfried, Scarlett Johansson, Rihanna or Miley Cyrus, among others. . All of them had to see her privacy bilified from her after her mobile phones were hacked with all the intimate photos stored on the device published on the Internet.
Convictions
All of them demanded that the full weight of the law fall on those who profited from their images. "This is not a scandal, it is a sexual crime", she reproached, and they assured that it was "a sexual violation and it is disgusting". However, it was not until September 2017 that the FBI managed to arrest the first of the four "hackers", Ryan Collins, a 36-year-old computer scientist who pleaded guilty and revealed that to collect the images he accessed the cloud storage service iCloud and dozens of Gmail accounts between November 2012 and September 2014 to subsequently filter graphic material on the internet through the 4Chan platform.
Ryan Collins was sentenced to 18 months in jail. Following him came Edward Majerczyk, 28, who also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine months in prison. 32-year-old Emilio Herrera also pleaded guilty and finally George Garofano arrived, who was sentenced to eight months in jail plus three months of criminal liberty.
