Script-hacking extortionist gets 5 yrs.

A HACKER WHO targeted celebrities was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison.

The Bahamian computer whiz admitted in May to robbing stars of numerous unreleased scripts, along with their private messages and sex tapes.

Knowles’ victims include “Power” star Naturi Naughton.

The 32-year-old Naughton said in a videotaped victim-impact statement she “never felt more violated” than after Knowles swiped show scripts — and “tried to extort” her and show producer 50 Cent.

Under Knowles’ plea deal, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office originally agreed sentencing guidelines for the hacker should be 27 to 33 months in prison — nearly twice the maximum.

But prosecutors later asked Manhattan Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer to up his sentence because they learned Knowles, 24, was penning unrepentant emails from jail — mouthing off about his crime and claiming he would write a tell-all with celeb dirt he still had secreted away.

Knowles’ lawyer, Clay Kaminsky, had countered it was all talk. He said his client was “lonely” and simply trying to impress a woman.

Engelmayer wasn’t swayed by Kaminsky’s arguments, saying Knowles was motivated by greed and his jailhouse boasts suggested he wasn’t remorseful about the hacks.

“You could have earned money the old-fashioned way, but instead, you took a shortcut,” Engelmayer said in handing down the sentence.“You chose to use your gifts, your know-how, for dark and lawless ends.

In a statement to the court, Knowles apologized, saying “What I did was wrong, and I truly wish I had never done it.”

But Knowles then said it was hard for him to turn over his laptop — which had stolen information on it — for destruction, because he didn’t have copies of his photos.

“Turning my laptop over to the court was a difficult thing to do,” he said, adding his computer “basically contained my life” and memories “I can never get back.”