OM demands 32 months in prison against hacker and blackmailer who worked via Snapchat – IT Pro – News

The Public Prosecution Service is demanding 32 months in jail, of which 12 months are suspended, in opposition to a 21-year-old man who hacked and extorted dozens of younger victims by way of Snapchat. He wished to see bare materials and cash from his victims.

The North Holland hacker was 18 years outdated when he practiced his practices in 2020, writes the OM. An advert of his on Snapchat promoted an internet site that allowed customers to see in the event that they lived in a “coronavirus space.” That virus had simply arrived within the Netherlands in that 12 months. Clicking the advert took victims to a faux Snapchat login web page.

After stealing the logins, he threatened to delete the accounts or make them inaccessible. The victims had to supply bare materials, cash or ‘different monetary merchandise’ to the suspect with the intention to meet his calls for. In some instances, these nude images have been distributed amongst colleagues, schoolmates, household and buddies of the victims. There are 29 reviews in opposition to the perpetrator, however it’s suspected that there are extra victims.

The Public Prosecution Service believes that the suspect ‘acted consciously and purposefully’, in accordance with the ‘ICT infrastructure’ he had constructed up. The perpetrator can nonetheless obtain a six-week deduction from his doable sentence attributable to an present pre-trial detention. Lastly, the general public prosecutor has requested for compensation to be awarded, which is requested by the victims themselves.

Snapchat is a social medium that primarily communicates with images, ‘snaps’. These will be adorned with filters and augmented actuality materials. The medium is well-liked amongst younger individuals.