Celeb Hacker Speaks Out: "I Didn't Know How To Stop"
Posted on Thu Oct 13th, 2011 9:45am PDT By X17 Staff
35-year-old Christopher Chaney, the now infamous hacker who released private photos of celebs including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis, was released on a $10,000 bond Wednesday night after the FBI announced his capture.
While the release seems appalling to some, Chaney, a Jacksonville, Florida resident, said in an interview with FOX 30: Action News Jacksonville that he felt "relief" when he was caught, that he wasn't trying to sell the photos and that he was addicted to hacking.
He says:
- "It started as curiosity and it turned into being addicted … seeing behind the scenes … of these people you see on the big screen every day … I didn’t know how to stop doing it. ... I deeply apologize … what I did was probably one of the worst invasions of privacy."
See more of the interview after the jump.
Chaney is charged with 26 counts of identity theft, unauthorized access to a protected computer and wiretapping and faces up to 121 years in prison.
His hacking of Google, Apple and Yahoo e-mail accounts from last November to February of this year amassed more than 50 victims.
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