

♼hris Chaney never wanted to become famous as The Man Who Hacked Hollywood.“But you’re the only one that’s seen it.”

“You feel like you’ve seen something that the rest of the world wanted to see,” he says. Still, this photo, a private self-portrait of one of our biggest stars, was something new, something larger than life, especially his. By now he knew more dirt than almost anyone in L.A.-the secret romances, the hidden identities, films in all stages of development. He had daily access to hundreds of messages between his victims and their managers, lawyers, friends, doctors, family, agents, nutritionists, publicists, etc. For years, he had stealthily broken into the e-mail accounts of the biggest players in Hollywood. There, without her makeup, stood Scarlett Johansson, her famous face unmistakable in the foreground, her naked backside reflected in the bathroom mirror behind her, a cell phone poised in her hand snapping the shot. The hacker’s eyes widened as the image filled his screen.
