The FBI have linked a Chicago man to The Fappening, an Internet event in which compromising photos of celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kim Kardashian, and Hayden Panettiere were leaked to the public.
Suspected culprit Emilio Herrera’s IP address was allegedly used to hack into more than 500 iCloud accounts.
According to Special Agent Josh Sedowsky,
“Based on victim account records obtained from Apple, one or more computers used at [Herrera’s house] access or attempted to access without authorization multiple celebrities’ e-mail and iCloud accounts over the course of several months… The IP address on Narragansett accessed 330 unique iCloud accounts between May and August 2014, according to the other. Of those, 291 allegedly belonged to people who registered their accounts outside Illinois. Those 291 accounts were accessed more than 600 times.”
FBI Agents raided the man’s Chicago home in mid-October, leaving with a Kindle, several cellphones, computers, floppy disks, hard drives and thumb drives. Herrera has not been charged of any crimes, but if he is behind the Internet onslaught, we hope the d-bag gets what’s coming to him.
