Hacker who targeted celebrities pleads guilty

A Bahamas man alleged to have hacked sexually explicit celebrity emails and movie scripts pleaded guilty in the case on Monday.
Alonzo Knowles was accused in December of scheming to steal “private, sexually explicit videos of celebrities” and sell unpublished movie and TV scripts.
He copped to one count felony criminal copyright infringement and one count of identity theft before Judge Paul A. Engelmayer.
“This case has all of the elements of the kind of blockbuster script the defendant, Alonzo Knowles, is alleged to have stolen: hacks into celebrities’ private emails, identity theft, and attempts to sell victims’ information to the highest bidder,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at the time of Knowles’ arrest.
“Unfortunately, these circumstances are all too real.”
 Knowles, 24, could land up to ten years in federal prison when he’s sentenced.