Man Mines Facebook For Security Questions, Nabs Nude Photos From Email

itwbennett writes "George Bronk, 23, has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into the e-mail accounts of thousands of women, scouring them for nude photos that he then posted to the Internet. How he did it: He searched his victims' Facebook pages for answers to common security questions and then logged in to their e-mail accounts. In one case he persuaded a victim to send him even more explicit photographs by threatening to post the ones he'd stolen if she didn't. Bronk faces 6 years in prison on felony hacking, child pornography and identity theft charges."

Article in summary redirects

[Grimbleton]

To a blogspot blog.

Re:Article in summary redirects

[mountaineer76]

yeh, I got that too, re-directs immediately to a blog about some insurance company. Here's the printable link which doesn't redirect: http://www.itworld.com/print/133630 [itworld.com]

Re:Article in summary redirects

[macraig]

The NoScript extension has an option on the Advanced tab, under Untrusted: Forbid META redirections inside NOSCRIPT elements. Do you have that option enabled? It's probably a key factor to whether NoScript blocks it or not.

Legal punishment calibration

[dpilot]

Evidently child pornography, blackmail, and breaking into thousands of women's email accounts merits punishment 6 times more severe than breaking into 1 woman's (Sarah Palin's) email account.

Re:Imagine what Facebook is able to do if some dud

[betterunixthanunix]

That was, in fact, the first thing Mark Zuckerberg used Facebook to do: gain access to others' email.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3 [businessinsider.com]

Re:Think of the children laws.

[Anonymous Coward]

If either one were to rob,beat,kill one of their fellow particpants, they would be tried as an adult in every state in the country.

Only if they're black!