A CALIFORNIA human being has been charged later he allegedly hacked into to a greater extent than than 100 computers to human face for sexually explicit photos that he thus used to blackmail his victims into handing over homemade gender activity tapes.
Luis Mijangos, 31, was charged alongside extortion later he allegedly infected to a greater extent than than 100 computers alongside a virus disguised every bit a pop vocal download, which allowed him to accept over the personal computers used yesteryear almost 230 people, including 44 children, myFOXla.com reports.United States of America of America Attorney's Office spokesman Thom Mrozek said Mr Mijangos looked for sexually explicit photos of the reckoner users, thus threatened to e-mail the files to everyone on the victims' mailing lists if they did non brand homemade pornography for him.
The Santa Ana human being was likewise defendant hacking into e-mail too social networking sites thus he could pose every bit the immature human being of unsuspecting women too teenage girls — too enquire them to brand gender activity videos.
After getting the videos, he would thus contact the women nether a unlike alias too necessitate they brand more. Sometimes he fifty-fifty distributed the homemade porn online, Mr Mrozek said.
Mr Mijangos, who appeared inward a wheelchair at Los Angeles federal courtroom today, was likewise defendant of remotely accessing victims' reckoner webcams too using them to spy on people too grab them inward "intimate situations".
He was likewise defendant of stealing credit menu numbers too other personal data that he could role for identity theft yesteryear installing a so-called keylogger on the computers of unopen to victims.
Mr Mijangos was arrested at his identify this calendar week too bail was educate at $US10,000 ($11,491).
Police began a six-month investigation later ane of his alleged victims — many of whom alive inward Long Beach — went to them for help, said FBI agent Laura Eimiller.
Mr Mijangos allegedly told the FBI he was hacking into computers at the asking of boyfriends too husbands who wanted to know if their partners were cheating on them, Mr Mrozek said.
He was expected to appear inward federal courtroom inward Los Angeles on July thirteen for a preliminary hearing, alongside the arraignment educate for July 19.
Mr Mijangos, who appeared inward a wheelchair at Los Angeles federal courtroom today, was likewise defendant of remotely accessing victims' reckoner webcams too using them to spy on people too grab them inward "intimate situations".
He was likewise defendant of stealing credit menu numbers too other personal data that he could role for identity theft yesteryear installing a so-called keylogger on the computers of unopen to victims.
Mr Mijangos was arrested at his identify this calendar week too bail was educate at $US10,000 ($11,491).
Police began a six-month investigation later ane of his alleged victims — many of whom alive inward Long Beach — went to them for help, said FBI agent Laura Eimiller.
Mr Mijangos allegedly told the FBI he was hacking into computers at the asking of boyfriends too husbands who wanted to know if their partners were cheating on them, Mr Mrozek said.
He was expected to appear inward federal courtroom inward Los Angeles on July thirteen for a preliminary hearing, alongside the arraignment educate for July 19.
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