Man arrested after hacking celebrities to steal scripts and sex tapes – officials
by Associated Press in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#YKD3)
- Alonzo Knowles held on copyright and identity theft charges
- Knowles allegedly told an undercover agent he had files on 130 accounts
A Bahamian man hacked into celebrities' email accounts to steal unreleased movie and TV scripts and private sex tapes and sought to peddle some of the scripts, boasting to an undercover agent that he had dossiers on at least 130 accounts of stars and big shots in entertainment, sports and media, according to US federal prosecutors.
Alonzo Knowles was being held without bail after a court appearance on Tuesday on criminal copyright infringement and identity theft charges as prosecutors described a scheme that also involved proffering an actor's passport, social security numbers for three professional athletes, unreleased tracks from a singer-songwriter's upcoming album and an explicit video grabbed from a radio host's email account.
