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SoCal Teen Pleads Guilty in Miss Teen USA ‘sextortion’ Case

A Southern California teenager on Tuesday pleaded guilty to hacking the computers of Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and other women, and secretly photographing them with their own webcams. Nineteen-year-old Jared James Abrahams of Temecula entered his in federal court in Orange County. Abrahams, a computer science student, now faces up to 11 years in […]

Arrest made in Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf ‘sextortion’ case

A college student was arrested Thursday for allegedly hijacking the webcams of young women — among them reigning Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf — taking nude images, then blackmailing his victims to send him more explicit material or else be exposed. Jared James Abrahams, a 19-year-old computer science student from Temecula, California, surrendered on Thursday […]

Webcam spying goes mainstream as Miss TEEN USA describes hack

Webcam hacking has officially gone mainstream with yesterday’s revelation that the new Miss Teen USA, Cassidy Wolf, was the victim of a “sextortion” plot in which someone slipped Remote Administration Tool (RAT) software onto her computer and used it to snap (apparently nude) pictures of Wolf in her room. “I wasn’t aware that somebody was […]