This week in creepy information: a Southern California man has admitted to conspiring with others to hack into tons of of Apple iCloud accounts—principally to steal nude images of younger girls.

Hao Kuo Chi, 40, pled responsible to costs of conspiracy and laptop fraud in U.S. District Court in Florida on Friday, the Justice Department not too long ago announced. Chi was arrested earlier this 12 months after a police raid on his LA County house revealed tens of 1000’s of stolen images and movies.

Authorities say that, since at the very least 2014, Chi was a part of what was mainly a nudes peddling ring. He and others “conspired to hack into the Apple iCloud accounts of hundreds of individuals across the country in search of nude photos and videos.” After confiscating the intimate materials, Chi and others would promote, commerce, or maintain the bare images and movies for himself, an related plea agreement shows.

Chi marketed his nude-stealing providers on-line, portraying himself as a form of “hacker-for-hire” and utilizing the moniker “icloudripper4you.” To cover their unlawful actions, Chi and different co-conspirators used a foreign-based encrypted e mail service, court docket paperwork declare. Nude movies or photos recovered by the criminals had been dubbed “wins.”

Chi’s technique of compromising accounts concerned a reasonably rudimentary phishing scheme, by which he would faux to be a member of Apple assist workers. In this fashion, he would trick victims into “providing him with their Apple IDs and passwords,” after which he would steal their private images or movies. During their investigation, police found two Gmail accounts tied to Chi that contained over half one million emails. Some 4,700 of these emails are stated to have contained iCloud account credentials that victims had offered to him, the Los Angeles Times previously reported.

A search warrant executed at Chi’s residence in La Puente, Calif., in May, revealed a terabyte of digital storage saved for the needs of “content stolen from victim iCloud accounts,” the search warrant says. It was previously reported that Chi was in possession of roughly 620,000 images and movies stolen from tons of of personal accounts.

At the time of the raid, Chia additionally admitted to police that he had hacked the accounts of at the very least 200 individuals on the request of different individuals on-line. Even together with his plea settlement, Chi now faces as much as twenty years in jail.