A 23-year-old man from the Bahamas has been charged with hacking celebrity emails to steal scripts and sex tapes that he peddled to an undercover agent, federal prosecutors in New York said on Tuesday.
Alonzo Knowles kept of at least 130 celebrities' emails and phone numbers, a criminal complaint said, and noted his victims included movie and TV actors, a casting director, a popular singer-songwriter and a hip-hop artist.
Prosecutors did not identify the celebrities, movies or shows involved.
He was held without bail after an appearance in Manhattan federal court on criminal copyright infringement and identity theft charges.
Knowles was arrested on Monday in Manhattan, a day after arriving from the Bahamas to sell the undercover agent 15 scripts for unreleased movies and TV shows for $80,000, prosecutors said.
