gq:
The Man Who Hacked Hollywood
The hacker’s eyes widened as the image filled his screen. There, without her makeup, stood Scarlett Johansson, her famous face unmistakable in the foreground, her naked backside reflected in the bathroom mirror behind her, a cell phone poised in her hand snapping the shot. Holy shit, he thought. This was a find—even for him. For years, he had stealthily broken into the e-mail accounts of the biggest players in Hollywood. He had daily access to hundreds of messages between his victims and their managers, lawyers, friends, doctors, family, agents, nutritionists, publicists, etc. By now he knew more dirt than almost anyone in L.A.—the secret romances, the hidden identities, films in all stages of development. Still, this photo, a private self-portrait of one of our biggest stars, was something new, something larger than life, especially his. “You feel like you’ve seen something that the rest of the world wanted to see,” he says. “But you’re the only one that’s seen it.”
From GQ contributor David Kushner’s exclusive report on Chris Chaney, the man who cracked the email accounts of dozens of Hollywood’s biggest stars—including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis—and spilled their secrets for the world to see
I can’t decide if the story itself is sort of perverted. There’s definitely a strong irony here.
What an interesting article..especially for a media-gossip-loving geek like me.