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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Article in summary redirects by Grimbleton · · Score: 3, Informative

    To a blogspot blog.

    1. Re:Article in summary redirects by mountaineer76 · · Score: 4, Informative

      yeh, I got that too, re-directs immediately to a blog about some insurance company. Here's the printable link which doesn't redirect: http://www.itworld.com/print/133630

    2. Re:Article in summary redirects by macraig · · Score: 4, Informative

      The NoScript extension has an option on the Advanced tab, under Untrusted: Forbid META redirections inside NOSCRIPT elements. Do you have that option enabled? It's probably a key factor to whether NoScript blocks it or not.

  2. Legal punishment calibration by dpilot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Evidently child pornography, blackmail, and breaking into thousands of women's email accounts merits punishment 6 times more severe than breaking into 1 woman's (Sarah Palin's) email account.

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  3. Re:Imagine what Facebook is able to do if some dud by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Informative

    That was, in fact, the first thing Mark Zuckerberg used Facebook to do: gain access to others' email.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3

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  4. Re:Think of the children laws. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    If either one were to rob,beat,kill one of their fellow particpants, they would be tried as an adult in every state in the country.

    Only if they're black!