HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut man charged with hacking into more than 250 iCloud accounts of Hollywood stars and ordinary people has agreed to plead guilty, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Garofano agreed to plead guilty to unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, prosecutors said. The case was filed by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles, but both sides agreed to transfer the case to Connecticut. He then used the information to illegally access his victims’ iCloud accounts, which allowed him to steal sensitive and private photographs and videos, which he often shared, authorities said. Although some of Garofano’s victims were celebrities, many ordinary people who live in Connecticut were also victimized, prosecutors said.

Source: National Post January 12, 2018 12:45 UTC