A Florida man has been indicted on charges of sneaking into the email accounts of more than 50 celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, Christina Aguilera and Rene Olstead, federal officials announced Wednesday.Pictures of a naked Johansson made their way to the internet in September. FBI agents arrested Christopher Chaney, 35, Wednesday morning after an 11-month investigation. One day earlier, a federal grand jury indicted him on 26 counts.
Investigators say that Cheney used publicly available sources to find information about the celebrities and used that information to gain access to their Yahoo, Apple and Google email accounts.
He'd then set the forwarding feature to send him a copy of every e-mail the celebrities received, the indictment says. That way, he kept reeiving forwarded emails even after passwords had been changed.
According to an FBI statement, "Chaney distributed some of the files he obtained illegally, including photos of celebrities, and offered them to various celebrity blog sites. Some of the illegally obtained files, including private photographs, were ultimately posted online."
In addition to Aguilera, Johansson, Kunis and Olstead, Chaney is accused of stealing information from stylist Simone Harouche and several people identified only by their initials: B.P., J.A., L.B. and L.S. The actress Jessica Alba was reportedly targeted.
Chaney, who used the names "trainreqsuckswhat," "anonygrrl" and "jaxjaguars911," faces 121 years in federal prison if convicted on all counts.
Source: The Warp
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