LOS ANGELES
A San Fernando Valley hacker who went into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on a notorious “Revenge Porn” website plead guilty to federal computer crime and identity theft charges, according to officials.
Charles Evens, 26, of Studio City, pleaded guilty late Wednesday afternoon to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information for purposes of private financial gain and one count of aggravated identity theft
Evens admitted that he obtained nude pictures that were posted on the revenge porn website, http://isanyoneup.com, officials said.
Authorities stated that Evens admitted that he hacked into email accounts belonging to hundreds of victims.
The operator of that website – Hunter Moore, 29, of Woodland, California – pleaded guilty in February to the same two offenses that Evens admitted to yesterday.
On his website, Moore posted nude and sexually explicit photos that had been submitted without the permission of victims.
To obtain more photos for the website, Evens gained unauthorized access – in other words, hacked into – Google e-mail accounts.
In late 2011, Moore sent an email to Evens that stated Moore would like as many nude pictures from hacked emails accounts as possible. In response, Evens accessed a victim’s e-mail account without authorization and obtained pictures.
Evens provided the pictures to Moore, and Moore paid $145.70. One of the photos – a topless picture of a female victim – was posted on isanyoneup.com on Dec. 29, 2011
As a result of the guilty pleas entered yesterday, Evens faces up to seven years in federal prison, which includes a mandatory two-year term for the aggravated identity theft charge.
Evens is scheduled to be sentenced on November 16.
Moore will be sentenced on Aug. 12. and is facing up to seven years in federal prison, and a mandatory minimum sentence of two years.