Hao Kou Chi pleaded guilty to four felonies in a hacker-for-hire scam that used socially engineered emails to trick people out of their credentials. The 40-year-old California man impersonated an Apple customer support technician in a socially engineered email campaign that stole peoples iCloud passwords to break into accounts. He then would dupe people into giving up their Apple IDs and passwords so he could steal photos from where they were stored in the cloud. The case underscores the increased privacy risk people face when using cloud-based services from trusted partners like Apple to store personal info online.”]

