In 2016, Ryan Collins of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $3,000 fine. Each of the suspects took a plea deal or pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information. Garofano was the last of the suspects to be sentenced in the case. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change.” It is a sex crime,” Lawrence told Vanity Fair in 2014. He was one of four people charged in the 2014 hacking scandal, in which private photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst and others were published online. He admitted to posing as a member of Apple’s online security team and sending emails to the victims asking for their usernames and passwords. George Garofano pleaded guilty in April to hacking more than 250 Apple iCloud accounts. A Connecticut man was sentenced to eight months in prison Wednesday for his role in a phishing scheme that exposed intimate photos, many belonging to celebrities.
