Revenge porn site operator Hunter
Moore, who reveled in being hated, has now been charged with fifteen federal felony
counts for allegedly conspiring with another man to hack into the email
accounts of numerous victims in search of nude photos that could be posted
online on his website.
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Moore and his cohort, Charles
Evens have been charged with conspiracy, seven counts of identity theft and
seven counts of unauthorized computer access. Not officially part of the
charge, but definitely part of the case, will be the fact that he is one of the
sleaziest people on the internet who isn’t charged with child pornography.
The Smoking Gun reports that According
to prosecutors, Moore (seen at right) paid Evens to hack e-mail accounts in
search of sexually explicit photos for his web site. The indictment cites
e-mails exchanged by the duo in 2011 and 2012 that refer to the illegality of
the hacking and the need to use anonymous PayPal accounts.
They reportedly created fake
emails accounts and Moore even had Evens send pictures to Moore’s mother’s
gmail account. Moore’s scheme targeted
and yielded naked pictures of eight people who’s email accounts were hacked, and
then naked pictures of them were posted on the web.
Apparently not enough people were
sending Moore revenge-porn pictures of their ex-girlfriends or boyfriends, or
were scared off by California’s new revenge porn law, which criminalizes
publishing nude photos without the nude person’s consent. Moore then went and found some unauthorized
pictures on his own.
Now the feds are seeking their
revenge. If convicted of the federal charges, Moore and Evens face up to five
years in prison on the conspiracy and computer hacking counts. The identity
theft charges carry “a mandatory two-year sentence” that would run “consecutive
to any other sentence imposed in the case,” according to prosecutors.
Let’s hope they get it and he
spends some time in prison and learns what revenge is.
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