Charlie Evens, one of the two men behind the now-defunct revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp.com, has expressed some remorse in an interview with CNN for his work on the site—he says he has “disgust for myself.”

Evens was the partner of Hunter Moore, who pleaded guilty in February 2015 to unauthorized access to a computer, aiding and abetting unauthorized access of a computer, and identity theft.

As Ars reported when Moore was arrested in January 2014, Evens compromised hundreds of e-mail accounts through social engineering.

"It was not exploiting, to our knowledge, any vulnerabilities in any of these online accounts,” Assistant US Attorney Wendy Wu told Ars last year. "Basically, he was impersonating these victims' friends and was able to get confidential information that would allow him to access their accounts.”

The two initially connected when Evens hacked Moore, not knowing who he was—impressed, Moore offered him a job. So why did Evens do it?

He told CNN:

The job would mean money. I was in a bad place. Just out of rehab. Staying at home for about eight months. I got fired from my job for drinking. And I did [the hacking] for like four months. … [I made] enough, I mean, not that anything is enough, but it's just scary how quickly I would drop my morals for so little. How much those women were worth, it was like $500 a week, $1,000 a week. It was just pay. I mean it was really just my habit. Like I needed to drink ... I know nobody wants to hear that, but it was a really shitty time for me.

Evens' trial is set to begin in federal court in Los Angeles on May 26.