Vanity Fair wrap of Scarlett Johansson has been chatting to Vanity Fair magazine about her new nude photo scandal that saw private photographs of the starlet in print on the internet after her Yahoo email account was allegedly hacked.
Trying to make the best of a awful situation, Johansson tell the magazine’s December subject that the photographs were prospect for her ex-husband Ryan Reynolds and said “I be acquainted with my best angles. They were sent to my husband. There’s not no matter which wrong with that. It’s not like I was shooting a porno. Although there’s not anything wrong with that also.”
It is claim that Johansson, and a horde of other female celebrities, had their electronic mail accounts broken into by Christopher Chaney from Jacksonville, Florida. Chaney is alleged to have broken into Apple, Gmail and Yahoo accounts belong to female stars, and mechanically forward any email they received to an account beneath his own control.
35-year-old Chaney faces 26 charges, counting access computer systems without authorization, wire tapping and identity theft. If convicted, he could face up to 121 years in prison. Chaney is said by the authorities to have offered the stolen salacious cloth to celebrity blogs, but no proof has been found that he made money from the system.
Yesterday, Chaney pleaded “not guilty” to the charges, sense that at trial is scheduled to begin in late December.
In the past, we’ve described how users of the Gmail email system can determine if someone has interfered with your account and is automatically in receipt of any messages that you are sent.
But what if you are a Yahoo user like Scarlett Johansson?
Well, aside from checking your Yahoo account’s mail forwarding settings to see if someone is sneakily being sent copies of your mail, there’s something even simpler you can do to avoid have your Yahoo mail forwarded.
Don’t pay for it!
Regular free Yahoo mail accounts, simply don’t let your email to be forwarded. The ultimate protection is to not have the facility at all!Sure, it’s a pain in the neck if you do want to forward your email, but is a God send if you’re worried about your account being hacked and a snooper being able to see every message you receive.
That’s $19.99 a year which – from the safety point of view – you might be very happy not to spend. 🙂