LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors Thursday filed a criminal information accusing George Garofano, 26, of Northford, Connecticut, of hacking into 250 Apple iCloud accounts, many of them belonging to entertainment figures in Los Angeles; he pleaded guilty to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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