Computer hacker who leaked nude photos of Scarlett Johansson 'will be ordered to pay her $66,000 and spend five years in jail'

The man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's emails and leaked nude photographs of her online should pay over $150,000 in restitution to her and other victims according to U.S prosecutors involved in the case.



The new documents filed with U.S. District Court in California and seen by TMZ.Com state that Christopher Chaney should be made to pay Johansson $66,179.46 and be sentenced to five years in prison for his illegal hacking.



Thirty-five-year-old Chaney pleaded guilty to nine hacking charges in March after stealing nude and revealing pictures of celebrities including Christina Aguilera and Mila Kunis and sending them to celebrity gossip sites.

Guilty: Christopher Chaney will be ordered to pay his victims restitution for hacking their email accounts upon his sentencing at the end of July according to new court papers filed in California. It is reported that he will be ordered to pay Scarlett Johansson over $66,000 for releasing nude pictures of her online



Chaney, of Jacksonville, Florida, was arrested last October as part of a year-long investigation of celebrity hacking that authorities dubbed 'Operation Hackerazzi' and will be sentenced on July 23rd.



He was hunted down by federal agents using a battering ram to his run-down brick home home which he had once shared with his late grandmother.

The depth of his hacking - which kept the unemployed Chaney glued to his computer screen for days at a time - saw him witness exchanges between celebrities, along with their family members and doctors.



In all he had illegally accessed the private information of around 50 stars including actresses Johansson and Kunis - which he did with virtually no technical computer training.

Christopher Chaney, the man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's email will be ordered to pay her over $66,000 in compensation for releasing nude pictures of her online and sentenced to five-years in prison

He explained that to get into their emails had been relatively easy - using Google and the 'I forgot my password' button.



After trying out combinations of A-listers' names to find working email addresses, he reset account passwords by researching pet names, where they were born and went to school.



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



He added: 'I don't want to compare it to throwing a touchdown pass... but it was a rush.'



He also hijacked the forwarding feature so a copy of every email a celebrity received was sent to an account he controlled, according to court documents.

A-list targets: Mila Kunis (pictured left) and Christina Aguilera (right) were also hacked by Chaney

Chaney claimed to have photos of Christina Aguilera wearing only her underwear and pictures of a well-known actress in her 'mid-to-late forties' naked.



The 35-year-old also admitted to being privy to information about male stars who were hiding the fact they were gay for the sake of their careers.



Prosecutors said Chaney illegally accessed the email accounts between November 2010 and October 2011.



Nude photos Johansson had taken of herself were later posted on the Internet. Johansson told Vanity Fair in its December issue that the photos were meant for Ryan Reynolds, now her ex-husband.



However Chaney claimed that he had not hacked the email accounts to make money but for 'personal' reasons because he was simply a movie fanatic.



He said that female stars were not even his preferred targets but location scouts, producers and industry insiders as he became more and more obsessed with the process of making films.



Many images were forwarded to two gossip websites and another hacker, but there was not any evidence that he profited from his scheme, authorities said.

