Jennifer Lawrence photo hacker Ryan Collins pleads guilty

A man has pleaded guilty to the hacking of emails and online accounts belonging to Hollywood stars and stealing private assets, including nude photos and video clips.

Ryan Collins used a ‘phishing’ scam to gain access to celebrity accounts

Ryan Collins, 36, had been accused of illegally accessing over 100 Google and Apple accounts, many of which belonged to famous women, between November 2012 and September 2014.

Prosecutors revealed that Collins used a ‘phishing’ scam to get his victims to enter their personal information.

He was then, in some cases, able to access all the files his victims had saved online. Some of these included naked videos and pictures.

Federal prosecutors said that they found no evidence to suggest that Collins distributed any of the explicit images obtained through his scheme.