Edward Majerczyk (28) of Chicago, Illinois agreed to plead guilty last Friday to hacking into the Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts of more than 300 victims, including 30 celebrities. He used phishing scheme to trick celebrities into entering their account credentials into bogus’security’ sites and then accessed private photos and videos of celebrities. The hackers then leaked hundreds of thousands of explicit photos of Hollywood actresses on the Internet in September 2014 that later known as The Fappening (or ‘Celebgate’) breach.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/07/celebgate-fappening-hacker.html