The feds keep chipping away at those thieves and hackers and we are pleased to showcase the recent results of their hard work.

Computer Hacking and Sexual Extortion

On December 9, 2015, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Georgia announced that a former U.S. State Department employee employed at the U.S. Embassy in London, pled guilty to “perpetrating a widespread, international e-mail phishing, computer hacking, and cyberstalking scheme against hundreds of women in the United States and abroad. Using e-mail passwords obtained by phishing, he hacked into hundreds of victims’ e-mail and social media accounts, stole thousands of sexually explicit photographs, and threatened at least 75 victims that he would release their photos and other personal information unless they agreed to his ‘sextortionate’ demands.
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