A man who stole more than 620,000 photos by illegally accessing iCloud for nude photos is arrested
A man living in Los Angeles, California, USA, allegedly trying to steal and share nude photos of a young woman, tampering with thousands of Apple accounts and collecting over 620,000 private photos and movies. Federal officials have announced that they have been arrested. The man has admitted that he has been charged with one crime of conspiracy and three crimes of unauthorized access.
La Puente man steals 620,000 iCloud photos in plot to find images of nude women --Los Angeles Times
Scammer Infiltrated Thousands of iCloud Accounts to Find Nude Photos --MacRumors
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/24/scammer-hacks-icloud-accounts-for-nude-photos/
Hao Quo Chi (40 years old) was arrested. Qi masqueraded as Apple's customer support staff and sent an email to the victim to provide him with his Apple ID password. Qi admitted in a judicial deal with a federal prosecutor that there were at least 306 victims in the United States alone, most of them young women.
According to the FBI's court documents, Qi owns Gmail addresses 'apple backup icloud' and 'backup agent icloud', and about 500,000 emails were found in these two accounts. In addition, it seems that about 4,700 of them contained the Apple ID and password sent to Defendant Qi.
In addition, Qi is also active as an iCloud intruder under the name 'icloudripper4you', and at the request of a person he met online, he also hacked about 200 accounts. Qi uses an overseas encrypted email service to communicate anonymously with the client, gains unauthorized access to the victim's iCloud account, and has nude photos and movies in the stored data. 'We are the winners,' he said, collecting and sharing with each other.
by SilverTD
It was discovered around March 2018 that a company specializing in removing celebrity photos from the Internet notified the general public in Florida that 'nude photos are posted on porn sites.' chance. Victims stored nude photos on their iPhones and backed them up to iCloud.
The FBI quickly found that the victim's iCloud account was logged in from Qi's home. Then, in May 2021, the FBI arrested Qi after obtaining evidence of a vast record of Qi from Dropbox, Google, Apple, Facebook, and providers.
Qi has pleaded guilty to one crime of conspiracy and three crimes of unauthorized access to a protected computer. Qi will be sentenced to up to five years in prison after being tried. 'I repented,' Qi said in a telephone interview. 'When my crime goes public, my life is ruined. I have a family.' I am.
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