Hasta La Gadget!

Last Friday, California police arrested a 23-year-old “man” who has been accused of hacking into the email and Facebook accounts of more than 3,000 women. Once in their various accounts he would search for, and often find, sexually-explicit photos of the women, and then send the photos to the victims’ contacts and post them on their Facebook accounts.

The suspect, George Samuel Bronk, was arraigned on Tuesday following an investigation involving Federal authorities and the California Highway Patrol’s Computer Crimes Investigation Unit.

Bronk first came to authorities’ attention after a Connecticut woman told police that someone had stolen explicit photos from her email and posted them onto her Facebook page. Police were able to trace an IP address to Bronk’s computer where they found that Bronk had gained access to almost 3,200 women’s email accounts.

It is thought that he tricked the emails into resetting their passwords based on pre-answered personal questions which he was able to guess based on info available on the women’s Facebook pages.

This guy deserves to do some time for what amounts to harassment and acting as a Peeping Tom on a cross-continental scale. But 3,200 accounts. That’s a lot. Almost, in a strange way, impressive. This guy could probably have found Osama Bin Laden or invented some kind of new Twitter had he put his hacking talents and seemingly endless amount of free time into good rather than evil.

via Switched