Being the fierce woman she is, Jennifer Lawrence spoke for all of the celebs affected by the 2014 hacking and stealing of nude photos when she shared in a Vanity Fair interview that year, “Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this.”
Now nearly three years later, J. Law and other famous targets are probably feeling a little better about the incident. Cosmopolitan reports that after stealing over 30 stars’ private nude photos and videos, 29-year-old Edward Majerczyk will go to jail for nine months. Deservingly, he even has to pay $5,700 in restitution fees to one of the stars involved because she needed counseling after he released her personal photos.
Majerczyk managed the widespread release of such personal details by sending emails that read as if they came from internet service providers. When he received usernames and passwords from those who responded, he was able to access a plethora of celebrity pictures that certainly weren’t meant for a public audience.
Although he wasn’t charged with selling or posting the photos and videos online, Majerczyk pleaded guilty to having unauthorized access to a protected computer, The Guardian says. According to his attorney, Thomas Needham, Majerczyk was “suffering from depression and looked to pornography websites and internet chat rooms” to “fill some of the voids and disappointment he was feeling in his life.” Needham also revealed that his client attended therapist sessions following the photo scandal.
Majerczyk will end up in a jail in Chicago, and although it seems that he’s come to regret his actions in the years since the hacking, his sentence is bound to make him consider how he’s harmed his victims’ lives even more.