Chris Chaney tells GQ how easy it was to hack into celebrities' email accounts

Scarlett Johansson was one of 50 celebrities to have their emails read by Mr Chaney. Picture: AP Source: Getty Images

Chris Chaney leaves federal court in LA on November 2011. He faces 60 years in prison. Picture: AP  Source: AP

THE man who hacked into hundreds of email accounts belonging to some of Hollywood's biggest stars has revealed how easy it was.

Chris Chaney - the man responsible for leaking the famous nude photo of Scarlett Johansson - said he simply used Google and the "I forgot my password" button to do it.

During an interview with GQ Magazine, Mr Chaney, 36, from Florida, bragged that he had daily access to more than 50 celebrities, including Mila Kunis, Ryan Renolds and Johansson.

He claimed to have photos of Christina Aguilera wearing nothing but skimpy silver panties, nude shots of a well-known actress “in her mid-to-late forties” and emails of male actors who admitted they were secretly "batting for the other team".

"You feel like you've seen something that the rest of the world wanted to see," Mr Chaney told GQ. "But you're the only one that's seen it."

"It's the whole Star Trek thing," he told GQ. "Going where no man has gone before."

Mr Chaney said he didn’t do it to blackmail celebrities or to be famous - he was just a die-hard film buff.

"It was a personal thing".

As well as saucy snaps and following celebrity gossip in real time, Mr Chaney said he discovered the latest information on movies while they were being filmed.

He recalled how a producer of a film discussed visiting strip clubs to find a body double for an actress, and how the producer negotiated how much flesh she'd show.

"It seemed a fairly convoluted process just to show a butt crack," Mr Chaney said.

Mr Chaney was eventually arrested in November 2011 and pleaded guilty to nine counts, including unauthorised access to a computer and wiretapping.

He faces 60 years in prison and $2.17 million in fines.