Man Mines Facebook For Security Questions, Nabs Nude Photos From Email

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 16, 2011 @12:02AM from the oh-it's-that-easy-eh dept.

itwbennett writes "George Bronk, 23, has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into the e-mail accounts of thousands of women, scouring them for nude photos that he then posted to the Internet. How he did it: He searched his victims' Facebook pages for answers to common security questions and then logged in to their e-mail accounts. In one case he persuaded a victim to send him even more explicit photographs by threatening to post the ones he'd stolen if she didn't. Bronk faces 6 years in prison on felony hacking, child pornography and identity theft charges."

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Re:Think of the children too by gnasher719 · 2011-01-16 00:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Well, I sure hope all of the girls who took pictures of themselves got child pornography charges against them too.
Why would you hope that? Are you yourself into hacking computers, and hoping that some victims would be afraid to be witnesses against you in a court? I cannot imagine any other reason.