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Feds Identify Accused Celebrity Hacker

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Broke into accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, others.

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He would have made a fine reporter at News of the World: The FBI has identified the man arrested for allegedly hacking into over 50 celebrities’ email accounts as Christopher Carney, a 35-year-old resident of Jacksonville, Florida. Carney’s alleged victims include Kunis, Christina Aguilera, and most recently Scarlett Johansson, of whom he apparently found nude photos. He is believed to have acted alone and appears to have made his way into accounts by making informed guesses about passwords and security questions.

Read it at The New York Times