LOS ANGELES – A hacker hired to steal compromising images to populate a revenge-porn website will spend 25 months in prison for the crime, a district judge ruled Monday.
He also must pay a $2,000 fine and complete 20 hours of community service, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled.
As part of a deal to avoid a possible 72-year prison sentence, Charles “Gary” Evens, 26, pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking and identity theft in association with the now-defunct revenge-porn site IsAnyoneUp.com. Evens confessed the site’s owner, Hunter Moore, paid him to hack into hundreds of email and other online accounts to steal sexually explicit images. Moore subsequently posted the photos to the site under the ruse the images were uploaded by bitter ex-spouses or -boyfriends and then demanded payment for the pictures’ removal.
Moore founded the site in 2010 and hired Evens in 2011. In early 2012, Moore boasted the site raked in $20,000 monthly.
Authorities arrested both men in January 2014 pursuant to a 15-count indictment handed down in October 2013.
Moore, 29, pleaded guilty to charges of hacking and identity theft in February, also to avoid a prison term of as many as 72 years. He faces sentencing Nov. 30.
