US authorities have arrested two men in California for hacking email accounts and stealing nude photos to post on a so-called “revenge porn” website.Hunter Moore, 27, and Charles Evens, 24, face charges including conspiracy, unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information and aggravated identity theft.
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Posting sexual photos of people online without their consent isn’t explicitly illegal in most states, unless the images at issue have been copyrighted.But a California man described by Rolling Stone as “the most hated man on the Internet” because he has operated a so-called revenge porn website featuring such images crossed the line into criminal conduct when he hacked into email accounts to get photos for IsAnyoneUp.com, the feds say. Hunter Moore, 27, and another man alleged to have worked with him were arrested Thursday after being federally indicted on charges of conspiracy, unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information and aggravated identity theft.
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