Online 'Sextortion' Is on the Rise
Sextortionists are hacking accounts and threatening blackmail victims for more.
He threatened women from his apartment. And from a burrito joint. He even did it from a Lowe's hardware store. Ryan Vallee of New Hampshire, now 22, first targeted some of his high school classmates when he hacked into teenage girls’ email and social media accounts to steal naked photos of them, then threatened to post the photos online unless they sent him more sexual images.
After he broke into the Facebook and Gmail accounts of one teen in 2012 and stole sexually explicit photos, Vallee texted her,
