LOS ANGELES
A federal judge sentenced San Fernando Valley hacker to two years in prison after he admitted that he went into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos.
The photos were later posted on a notorious “Revenge Porn”website, according to officials.
Charles Evens, 26, of Studio City, plead guilty in July 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, officials said.
U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee also ordered the defendant to pay a $2,000 fine, to perform 20 hours of community service and to pay $147.50 in restitution.
Evens will begin serving his sentence on Jan. 29.
Evens obtained nude pictures that were posted on the revenge porn website, http://isanyoneup.com.
The operator of that website – Hunter Moore, 29, of Woodland, California – plead guilty in February to the same two offenses that Evens admitted to.
Judge Gee is scheduled to sentence Moore on Nov. 30.
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