Dutch politician Mitchel Van der K sentenced for Celebgate Hacking

The Dutch court sentenced Van der K on 24 December – Christmas eve, for  hacking celeb pussies.

Mitchel Van der K, a city Councillor with the Dutch town of Almere haas resigned after an investigation led to his iCloud password-cracking escapades. His problems began after he leaked nude images and a sex tape from Dutch vlogger star Laura Ponticorvo in March 2017 – a leak that sparked both media attention and an investigation.

According to prosecutors, the extent of Van der K’s data breach is unprecedented. He invaded hundreds of accounts, frequently and repeatedly violating his victims’ privacy. The prosecutor’s office cited victims’ statements such as these:

• It feels like someone has broken into me.
• It feels like a digital assault.
• I feel dirty and I feel watched.
• I also have a private life and I am very careful with that.

A month after Dutch investigators tracked him down, raided his home, and arrested him, Van der K was publicly outted by the famous Dutch crime journalist, television presenter, and former police officer John van den Heuvel.
The public prosecutor of the North Holland Public Prosecution Service asked that Van der K – a member of the VVD political party in the Netherlands – be sentenced to three years in prison for hacking into the iCloud storage accounts of both celebrities and people he actually knows.
The content he stole from his victims’ iCloud accounts included financial data such as insurance documents, family photos, and, of course, the material that so many crooks have been groping for in the multiyear crime spree that is Celebgate – nude photos and videos.
Besides, Ponticorvo, Van der K’s local victims included another celeb: Dutch field hockey star Fatima Moreira de Melo.

Where’s the “allegedly”?
No need to couch this in “the accused is innocent until proven guilty” language, because Van der K straight-up admits that he frequently hacked – or tried to hack – iCloud accounts.
Van der K claims that he did so because he was being extorted. His story goes like this: he was forced to hack women’s personal accounts and steal their personal data because some other, mysterious, unknown extortionist was threatening to reveal revealing footage of him.
The public prosecutor’s response: Seriously? That makes no sense. Most of the victims – more than half – were non-celebs. They were women Van der K knew from work or his personal life. Why would somebody force Van der K to go after the intimate photos of women whom (relatively) nobody knows? From a translation of the prosecutor’s public statement:
Why an unknown extortioner would have forced the suspect to browse their accounts for photos and videos, I completely miss.
They just can’t stop mugging women
The first wave of celebs who suffered this kind of hacking and nudie larceny came in 2014 with Celebgate 1.0 involving Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, Selena Gomez, Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, Lea Michele, Winona Ryder, and Hillary Duff, among dozens of other women celebrities.
In 2017, we got another sequel in Celebgate 2.0, starring Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried, among others … followed a few months later by Celebgate 3.0, in which photos were gang-grabbed from Miley Cyrus, Stella Maxwell, Kristen Stewart, Tiger Woods, Lindsey Vonn and Katharine McPhee.