Isn’t it great to see a superstar in an unguarded moment. They only let us see what they want us to see or generally portray themselves as something other than the real them entirely. Just like everyone, really.
However, these people are famous and more attractive and generally nicer to gawp at than Flubbo down the street with his roll-ups, carrier bags and back boobs.
And so, Florida’s Chris Chaney lightened up our days by hacking into celebrity email accounts and stealing naked pictures that they’d taken of themselves (to share with other people because, and this is nice to know, they’re all just as sexually needy as we, the people, and still need to impress people with self-shot nudey snaps) and giving them to us. And now he’d like to say sorry.
Jacksonville’s Chaney was arrested and charged on Wednesday following a year-long FBI investigation in the amusingly named Operation Hackerazzi.
The images he found, some ended up on our monitors. You’ll remember the nudes of Scarlett Johansson and the kinda nudes of Christina Aguilera. Of course, we’re more interested in the ones that he didn’t leak. Yet. Come on Chano! You must’ve left the snaps with some other ne’er-do-well who wants to leak them?
Chaney faces 26 separate charges of accessing and damaging computers, identity theft and wiretapping which could result in 121 years in prison if found guilty on all charges.
Phew. All that for some boobs.
He admitted his guilt to journalists in Florida, saying:
“It started as curiosity and it turned into just being addicted to seeing behind the scenes of the lives of the people you see on the big screen every day.”
Chaney didn’t want to blackmail any slebs, nor indeed did he sell his pictures. He simply liked doing it. He liked making celebrities miserable (while simultaneously sending their profiles into the stratosphere) and us dribbling fools happy with n00dz.
“I deeply apologise. I know what I did was probably one of the worst invasions of privacy… I know it was wrong and have to face it and go forward.”
Mr Chaney allegedly used several online aliases, including “anonygrrl” and “jaxjaguars911” which you should now go and stick into Google to see what comes up. Or indeed, try and hack his emails, as it must be an absolute goldmine!
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