The year 2014 was somewhat controversial for some, since the fact is that a multitude of iCloud accounts and other cloud storage services were accessed thanks to various techniques of phising and other types of digital fraud, which called into question the security of many users, and also made both companies and individuals begin to take some more important measures.
Now, almost five years later, justice is still wanted for all those affected, and apparently recently the United States court has convicted Christopher Brannan, a professor from Virginia, for having accessed more than 200 accounts and being one of the main managers of the "Celebgate".
Christopher Brannan, sentenced to 3 years in prison for the “Celebgate”
As we have been able to know thanks to the information from AppleInsiderChristopher, apparently would have accessed a total of more than 200 iCloud, Facebook and Yahoo accounts, using various fraud techniques such as phising, with which it was posing as one of these services in order to obtain the passwords of the users, or even extracting the answers to the security questions from various sources and social networks.
In this way, this high school teacher was able to access accounts of all kinds, from standard users to companies and celebrities, for example, getting access to their different backups or even photos if they were being synchronized with iCloud, which is thought to have threatened to share them publicly when it found something compromised.
In this case, a large part of the fault lies with the people themselves, as they did not use very strong passwords or other security techniques, but now, without a doubt what he has done is considered a crime, and for this very reason the United States court has sentenced Christopher Brannan to 36 months in prisonWhile others who carried out similar operations were only sentenced for 18 months.
