‘Don’t trust the iCloud’: Paris Hilton’s nude hacker pain

AS THE hacker who stole her naked photos and more than $170,000 was jailed, Paris Hilton said she will “never get over it”.

“She got what she deserved”, said Paris Hilton after her hacker was jailed for 57 months. Picture: Jordan Strauss)

HEIRESS Paris Hilton isn’t storing her nude pictures on the iCloud any more after the hacker who stole nude photos and more than $170,000 from her was jailed for almost five years.

Facing the woman who stole her identity in court, Hilton said she had been “violated” so many times she was “sick and tired of brushing it under the rug” and not standing up for herself.

Hilton turned up to see her hacker sentenced, and outside the court told TMZ her advice to other celebrities was “don’t trust the iCloud” if they wanted to keep their pictures safe.

“I don’t use iCloud at all and I haven’t since [this happened]. I don’t trust it,” she said.

The Simple Life star was targeted by the female hacker, known as Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan, between 2015 and 2017.

Ms Bkhchadzhyan stole more than $170,000 from the 37-year-old model as well as a number of nude photographs.

According to TMZ, Ms Bkhchadzhyan committed the theft after hacking Ms Hilton’s account information.

She also targeted two other individuals during the same period.

Hilton confronted her hacker in open court, reading a statement about the impact the hacking had on her, The Blast reported.

She revealed the extent to which the hacker had intruded into her life — even trying impersonate her and be let into Hilton’s house in a gated community.

‘UPSET, HURT AND VIOLATED’

“I felt so upset, hurt and violated. The defendant not only hacked into my accounts and made credit cards with my name on them but somehow found a way to hack into the email accounts of my employees, my friends and my family members such as my father and sister,” she told the court.

“The defendant started contacting me personally through text after she impersonated me to a phone company and took over my cell phones where she actually had set it up so that she had her own phones that were directly linked to mine receiving all of my personal texts, emails, whatsapp conversations, private photos and videos.”

She told the court the woman impersonated her to book a penthouse suite at the Roosevelt Hotel for a New Year’s Eve party, charging tens of thousands of dollars of champagne to Hilton’s credit card.

Hilton now longer uses the iCloud to store her pictures, and says other celebrities shouldn’t either. Picture: Supplied

“Now it has made me very scared, terrified and traumatised,” Hilton said.

“This has impacted me in so many ways. I am constantly looking over my shoulder and even scared to walk into my home alone fearful that this woman or her boyfriend or other dangerous friends are inside there waiting to hurt me or steal from me.

“This woman targeted me in such a way that I will never forget or get over it. I feel so incredibly violated.”

‘SICK TO MY STOMACH’

Outside court after the sentencing, Hilton said justice had been served and her hacker “got what she deserved”.

“It was traumatising and terrifying to even look at her and made me feel sick to my stomach,” she told TMZ.

“Everything that she put me through. but I was also happy that I got to see her and let her know exactly what she did and how much it affected me.

“And I think she really understood. band the judge really made her understand even more.”

Ms Bkhchadzhyan used Ms Hilton’s credit cards and bank accounts to book an opulent party at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood on New Year’s Eve 2015 worth around $53,000, TMZ reported.

She pretended to be the celebrity in an email to Ms Hilton’s employees, and convinced them to transfer $106,000 to her account.

The hacker also logged into Ms Hilton’s iCloud account and stole naked photos of the star — although they have not yet been leaked online.

Ms Bkhchadzhyan also hacked Paris Hilton’s sister Nicky and father Rick Hilton in a bid to access passwords to various other accounts.

She was finally arrested in 2017, pleading guilty to bank fraud conspiracy.

Paris Hilton is the granddaughter of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton.

She shot to fame as a teenage model before being labelled as New York’s leading "It" girl in 2001.

In 2003, she appeared in an infamous sex tape with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon which was leaked to the public.

She became a household name in the noughties after appearing beside Nicole Richie in The Simple Life, which aired between 2003 and 2007.

Originally published as ‘Don’t trust the iCloud’: Paris Hilton’s nude hacker pain