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Others were identified only by initials and investigators wouldn&#039;t disclose if they were famous, but said victims named in the indictment agreed to have their identities made public.

In the televised interview, Chaney, 35, said he began celebrity hacking out of curiosity and it quickly became addictive, &quot;seeing the behind-the-scenes of what&#039;s going on with the people you see on the big screen.&quot;

Chaney hacked Google, Apple and Yahoo email accounts beginning last November and through February, then hijacked the forwarding feature so that a copy of every email received was sent, &quot;virtually instantaneously,&quot; to an email account he controlled, according to an indictment handed up Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles.

Authorities wouldn&#039;t say whether Chaney was able to access email accounts via cell phones, but he was able to figure out secure passwords to various celebrity accounts through information that had been made public. 
					