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Former U.s. Official Pleads Guilty To ‘Sextortion’ Hacking Scheme


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An illustration picture shows projection of binary code on man holding aptop computer in WarsawBy Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. official pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he orchestrated an international cyber hacking operation to stalk hundreds of young women and threaten them if they did not share sexually explicit material, the Justice Department said. Michael Ford, 36, of Atlanta, Georgia, admitted to using aliases from January 2013 to May 2015 to engage in “sextortion†with his victims, many of them students at U.S. colleges, while employed by the U.S. State Department at the U.S. embassy in London, according to his indictment. Ford’s scheme included posing as a technical support member from a well-known email company and sending phishing messages to thousands of potential victims, according to the indictment, the Justice Department said.




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