A woman could spend nearly a decade in prison for allegedly hacking Selena Gomez’s email.
Susan Atrach is suspected of gaining access by resetting Selena’s passwords by successfully answering the security questions using information she found online between June 2015 and February 2016 and sharing her private media online.
The 21-year-old New Jersey student has now been charged with five counts of identity theft, five counts of accessing and using computer data to commit fraud, and one count of accessing computer data without permission.
If she is proved guilty on all charges, Atrach could be sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison.
She is is expected to be arraigned in court on 27 August with prosecutors recommending her bail be set at $250,000 (£190,000).
Gomez was the victim of another computer hacking in 2017, when posted nude photos of her former boyfriend Justin Bieber. The pictures were reportedly taken back in 2015 during the Canadian’s singers’ trip to Bora Bora.
“My first thing was like…how can they do this? Like, I feel super violated,” he told Access Hollywood, shortly after the photos surfaced in 2015. “Like, I feel like I can’t step outside and feel like I can go outside naked. Like, you should feel comfortable in your own space… especially that far away.”
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Woman might Get Nine Years Imprisonment for Hacking Selena Gomez’s Email
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