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Celebgate iCloud phisher pleads guilty to accessing 30+ celebrity accounts, faces 5 years

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<p>One of the men behind the ‘<a href="http://9to5mac.com/guides/icloud-hack/" target="_blank">Celebgate[/url]‘ phishing attack has pleaded guilty to accessing more than 300 iCloud and Gmail accounts, including ‘at least 30’ belonging to celebrities. The plea was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/illinois-man-charged-hacking-apple-icloud-and-gmail-accounts-belonging-more-300-people" target="_blank">announced[/url] by the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Central District of California.</p>

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Edward Majerczyk, 28, who resides in Chicago and Orland Park, Illinois, was named in a criminal information filed today in United States District Court in Los Angeles. Majerczyk has signed a plea agreement in which he agrees to plead guilty to a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, specifically, one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information.</span></p>

<p>Another of the Celebgate offenders, Ryan Collins, also took a plea <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/15/celebrity-icloud-nude-photos-leak-hacker-charged/" target="_blank">back in March[/url] in return for a recommended sentence of 18 months …</p>
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