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Ryan Collins
Unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information
- Defendant
- Ryan Collins
- Reddit role
- other
- Charge
- Unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information
- Jurisdiction
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
- Date
- 2016-10-27
- Sentence
- 18 months federal prison
- Subreddit
- r/TheFappening
Summary
Ryan Collins, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for a phishing scheme that compromised the iCloud and Gmail accounts of more than 100 people, many of them female celebrities. The stolen private images later spread virally in the 2014 'Celebgate' or 'Fappening' leak, which on Reddit centered on the r/TheFappening subreddit that the company ultimately banned. Investigators found no evidence that Collins personally posted or leaked the photographs.