Creep Used Women’s Facebook Info to Hack E-Mail Accounts and Steal Nude Pics [Crime]

George Bronk, a 23-year-old guy, scoured Facebook profiles to hack e-mail accounts of dozens of ladies. He would then send any nude pictures he found to the ladies’s entire address book because he thought ” it was funny” .

The stuff Bronk did was pretty nasty. He would target female Facebook users who happened to have public e-mail addresses and glean any and all kinds of info from their profile and conversations (from favorite colors to food to father’s middle name, etc) with the intention to answer security questions that protected the e-mail account. Armed with the public but personal info, he was in a position to hack in.

Once hacked, Bronk would comb through each women’s ” sent” folder, searching for nude pictures or videos. He’d then send off those pictures to the girls’s entire contact list for fun. On more sickening occassions, he’d threaten many of the women directly, saying he’d make the photographs public unless he received more nude pictures from them. The victims likened it to ” virtual rape” .

When Bronk was arrested the police found 170 explicit pictures stolen from dozens of ladies.

If it wasn’t already apparent, now’s a very good time for everyone to modify their passwords and security questions to something ridiculously difficult and impossible to decipher from public information. Or stop taking nude pictures. [ MSNBC ]

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