The victims' names read like the front page of a supermarket tabloid. Kim Kardashian, her mother Kris Jenner, Paris Hilton, and there even appears to have been an attempt to access accounts belonging to FBI Director Robert Mueller.
The thieves made off with in excess of $70,000, according to reports, and the scariest part is that the perpetrators were 19-year-old Luis Flores and his mother (some reports say simply roommate), 41-year-old Kyah Green.
What they apparently had in quantity in their apartment was digitized information about many celebrity accounts – MIchelle Obama, Tom Cruise and Beyonce also figured in the haul when the police raided. The information is believed to have been retrieved by Flores and Green from easily accessible Internet sites.
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