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Posted at 10:37 AM on 24.10.2011
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A Mexiam i able tommigrant was jailed for 6 years in California for hacking into computers and "sextorting" women into sending him sexually particularvideos and photographs.In what a judge known as"cyberterrorism," Luis Mijangos, 32, hacked into dozens of computers and faucetped into microphones to listen to exploitrs' private conversations and webcams to practicethem at the same time asthey were unaware.Mijangos pleaded guilty in March 2011 to pchacking and twinetapping, employingmalicious software in a single case to hack right into a teenagerage girl's computer, take control of her webcam and acquire naked picturesof her.Court documents described how he made victims download the malware by sending them files which gave the impression to be popular songs or videos. Having taken control in their computers, he would obtain images and videos of female victims and "sextort" them by threatening to post intimate material on the netunless they sent him more intimate images and videos."We now live in an international gone digital, counting on our non-publiccomputers for eachthing from banking, to be informeding, to intimate communications with family and friends," said US Attorney Andre Birotte Jr."Mr Mijangos invaded the sanctity of msomebodyal digital worlds and utilized in timate content to victimize and prey upon unsuspecting victims," he added. in addition to stealing monetaryinformation, Mijangos "read victims' emails and that iMs, watched them during their webcams, and listened to them during the microphones at their computers. "Often, he then used the tips he obtained to play psychological games together with his victims," the court papers said.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) welcomed the sentence, but said the crimes were a part of a worrying trend."The sentence imposed on Mr Mijangos is acceptable according to the coolnessing impact his behavior had on scores of younger girls," said FBI l. a. office chief Steven M. Martinez."The FBI has seen an increase in similar cases according to the exploitation of emerging technologies by criminals."it ismy hope that this shippedence serves as a warning for victims of webpredators to advise law enforcement or a trusted source when threatened, and almethodsrefrain from sending compromising photographs via cyberspace."
A Mexiam i able tommigrant was jailed for 6 years in California for hacking into computers and "sextorting" women into sending him sexually particularvideos and photographs.In what a judge known as"cyberterrorism," Luis Mijangos, 32, hacked into dozens of computers and faucetped into microphones to listen to exploitrs' private conversations and webcams to practicethem at the same time asthey were unaware.Mijangos pleaded guilty in March 2011 to pchacking and twinetapping, employingmalicious software in a single case to hack right into a teenagerage girl's computer, take control of her webcam and acquire naked picturesof her.Court documents described how he made victims download the malware by sending them files which gave the impression to be popular songs or videos. Having taken control in their computers, he would obtain images and videos of female victims and "sextort" them by threatening to post intimate material on the netunless they sent him more intimate images and videos."We now live in an international gone digital, counting on our non-publiccomputers for eachthing from banking, to be informeding, to intimate communications with family and friends," said US Attorney Andre Birotte Jr."Mr Mijangos invaded the sanctity of msomebodyal digital worlds and utilized in timate content to victimize and prey upon unsuspecting victims," he added. in addition to stealing monetaryinformation, Mijangos "read victims' emails and that iMs, watched them during their webcams, and listened to them during the microphones at their computers. "Often, he then used the tips he obtained to play psychological games together with his victims," the court papers said.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) welcomed the sentence, but said the crimes were a part of a worrying trend."The sentence imposed on Mr Mijangos is acceptable according to the coolnessing impact his behavior had on scores of younger girls," said FBI l. a. office chief Steven M. Martinez."The FBI has seen an increase in similar cases according to the exploitation of emerging technologies by criminals."it ismy hope that this shippedence serves as a warning for victims of webpredators to advise law enforcement or a trusted source when threatened, and almethodsrefrain from sending compromising photographs via cyberspace."
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