Sextortion’ online scam costs B.C. foreign exchange student $1,000

An article by Katie Derosa A 20-year-old foreign exchange student living on Vancouver Island was scammed out of $1,000 in a “sextortion” case, in which a woman threatened to post naked photos of him online unless he gave her money. Oak Bay police are investigating and sending out a warning to prevent other sexual extortion […]

How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Sextortion

Katie Gatto wrote an article in Tomsguide.com In 2011, naked photos of Hollywood starlet Scarlett Johansson made their way onto the Web. The photos, which Johansson had taken herself with her smartphone, were posted on a variety of different sites, and then went viral. Such things happened to a whole host of celebrities, including Christina […]

Ohio man accused in sextortion of Arvada teen

An article by Laurie Cipriano, KUSA A man had access into the bedroom of a Colorado teen – through a computer. Investigators say it’s sextortion. It’s their word for the threat allegedly leveled against a 8th grade girl by an online predator in another state. Greg Kasarcik, 24, who lives in Ohio, has been arrested and […]

Is someone watching you via your webcam?

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Is someone watching you while you’re in the privacy of your own? The issue of web hacking took the national spotlight earlier this month when Miss Teen USA, Cassidy Wolf, and the FBI came forward stating that someone hacked into her, took pictures of her through a webcam and then allegedly tried […]

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 […]

Spied On Through a Webcam On The Katie Couric Show

Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf recalls the moment she realized someone had been using her own webcam to take nude photos of her. Cassidy found that she had been spied on for a long period of time because the nude photos were from high school and college. The sextortionist gave her three options or he […]

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 […]

Arrest made in Miss Teen USA ‘Sextortion photos’ case

TEMECULA, Calif. — 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, […]

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 […]