Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4,700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos

Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4,700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/nude-hunt-la-phisherman-accessed-4700-icloud-accounts-620k-photos/

The LA Times reported this week that Los Angeles man Hao Kuo "David" Chi pled guilty to four federal felonies related to his efforts to steal and share online nude images of young women. Chi collected more than 620,000 private photos and 9,000 videos from an undetermined number of victims across the US, most of whom were young and female.

Chi's plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Tampa, Florida, acknowledged "at least 306" victims. This number may be considerably smaller than the true total, since the FBI found that about 4,700 out of 500,000 emails in two of Chi's Gmail accounts—backupagenticloud and applebackupicloud at Gmail—contained iCloud credentials that Chi tricked his victims into providing.