Leslie Jones’ Hacker Was a Milo Yiannopoulos Fan, Revenge Porn Lawyer Says
Las Vegas First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza told TheWrap he sees just a 1 percent chance of finding the perp(s) who broke into the “Ghostbusters” star’s iCloud account, stealing and posting nude photos of the comedian as well as other personal information.
“Ultimately, I would be really shocked if the person with the expertise and the know-how to do this didn’t also have the expertise and the know-how to cover their tracks,” he said.
Nude Photos, Personal Info Exposed
[...] a fat goose egg are the chances that Breitbart editor Yiannopoulos — who was recently suspended from Twitter for “targeted abuse” of Jones via the social media platform — will face any legal trouble over this ordeal, Randazza said.
Randazza never liked the term “revenge porn,” by the way.
[...] that depends on the states involved, of course.
[...] criminally, it’s potentially a non-starter for practical reasons, Randazza told us.
“This might wind up getting the attention of law enforcement because it is a high-profile case, it’s a hacking case — and there may be ways to find out who did it,” he said.
In March, Ryan Collins, a Pennsylvania man, pleaded guilty to hacking into the email accounts of more than 100 people, most of them celebrities, in a large-scale nude-photo dump that became known as The Fappening.
The investigation revealed Collins obtained his victims’ usernames and passwords by sending emails that appeared to be from Apple or Google, asking them to provide information.