Internet "Sextortion" Case

(Los Angeles, California) Last June, after a two-year investigation the FBI arrested a 31-year-old man for hacking into teenage girls' computers, downloading explicit photos, and then using the photos to extort more photos.

The nefarious hacker would use a social networking site to infect the girls' computers with a virus to control all aspects of their machines.

In all, there were 230 victims and more than 100 computers impacted.

In one example, the hacker attached a pornographic picture of the victim in an e-mail and demanded sexually explicit video of her in return for not telling her parents about the pictures he had downloaded from her computer.

According to the FBI, the hacker would not have been detected had he not contacted his victims.

The linked article is sketchy regarding information in the case and there's no explanation why it took five months to report it.