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Tag Archives: sextortion
Thinkuknow: What kids are up to online and how to protect them
How to teach 5-year-olds that people online aren’t always who they say they are, that older kids don’t have to suffer bullying in silence, and much more. 
20 students charged in school sexting scandal
Twenty US middle and high-school students in the US are facing charges of privacy invasion after numerous explicit photos of female students were swapped by text and social media. 
Adult FriendFinder hacked, users’ intimate details exposed on Dark Web
Adult FriendFinder, a website billed as a way for people to “find friends, sex, flings and hookups,” has had a serious data breach. Now millions of people who thought they were using a discrete service to find casual sex have had their private information exposed online.
Revenge-porn website operator Kevin Bollaert guilty of identity theft and extortion
Kevin Bollaert was behind ugotposted.com and its companion extortion site, which would take down frantic victims’ photos (for a tidy sum, of course).
Sextortionist who preyed on teens via Facebook and Skype gets 53 months
Andrew McBride, who preyed on victims as young as 13, has been sentenced to 53 months in jail and three years of monitoring after that. 
Police warn of sextortion scam targeting men
UK police have issued an urgent warning after three students were blackmailed in an online sextortion scam.
Does Facebook’s Slingshot commit true imagicide? Or is it another Snapchat?
“Disappear forever” didn’t mean much when Snapchat said it. Neither Snapchat nor Facebook’s newly released Slingshot stops anybody from taking a screenshot or snapping a photo of the receiving device with another camera, for one thing. 
Convicted Facebook paedophile walks free
A UK man the police called “every parent’s nightmare” admitted to eight counts of inciting children to engage in sexual activity, as well as two counts of making indecent images of children. He was sentenced to 3 years of rehab, with no prison time, and people are furious at the idea that he’s walking free. 
Monday review – the hot 21 stories of the week
It’s weekly roundup time! Here’s all the great stuff we’ve written in the past seven days. 