A 23-year-old California man is set to appear in court Tuesday, after police say he broke into the webmail accounts of more than 3,000 women and posted sexually explicit images of many of them on Facebook.
George Samuel Bronk was arrested Friday following an investigation involving federal authorities and the California Highway Patrol's Computer Crimes Investigation Unit.
The case shows how the information stored on social media sites can be misused, and ultimately turned against victims.
Police believe that Bronk broke into about 3,200 webmail accounts by guessing the answers to password reset questions used by services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Microsoft's Hotmail.
Bronk is facing a 30 count indictment that charges him with hacking, possession of child pornography and felony impersonation. [Date: 3 November 2010; Source: http://news.techworld.com/security/3247074/]
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