Second celebgate hacker pleads guilty to phishing

A second US man has pleaded guilty to stealing intimate pictures of celebrities using a phishing scam. Edward Majerczyk, 28, who resides in Chicago and Orland Park, Illinois, was charged with hacking into the Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts of more than 300 people, including Hollywood celebrities. In a plea bargaining deal, …

[Anonymous Coward]

Federal Prison...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBzvMLW0ii4

[Sebastian A]

It's not celebgate

Stop trying to -gate everything.

It was the fappening and you damn well know it.

[kwyj]

Re: It's not celebgate

Have an upvote.

Not sure why the Reg keeps referring to it as celebgate. It's always been known as the fappening.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like to know *how*

Not that I want to hack such accounts, but I'd like to know if it was a real vulnerability or just weak passwords.

The former I'd like to know about, the latter raises questions why repeat login failures did not lead to a temporary ban on the originating IP address like even the most basic fail2ban setup would enact.