Calif man accused of extortion through hacking (AP)

LOS ANGELES – A coder took over more than 100 computers and utilised them to wring sexually definitive videos from women and teenage girls by threatening to promulgation their individualized data, federal prosecutors live Tuesday.

Luis Mijangos, 31, of Santa Ana, was inactive at his bag by FBI agents on a calculate of extortion that carries a peak federal situation declare of digit years, according to a evidence from the U.S. attorney’s office.

Mijangos prefabricated his prototypal suite attendance in downtown Los Angeles weekday farewell where he was free on a $10,000 unsafe attendance stick on information of bag confinement with no computers, his professional Sylvia Torres-Guillen said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement place a detainer on Mijangos and module verify him into safekeeping because he is an banned alien, U.S. attorney’s spokesman Thom Mrozek said.

A ring organisation for Mijangos could not be directly located.

The plot was sophisticated, Mrozek said.

Mijangos told FBI agents he was a consultant and unnatural Java and C++, digit machine planning languages.

“He did hit theoretical proficiency,” Mrozek said.

Mrozek said that federal extortion cases are relatively thin but this housing is unequalled because it “doesn’t refer demands for money but for demands of sexually definitive videos.”

Some victims hit been identified and most are believed to be in Southern California, but whatever could be elsewhere in the world, he said.

Federal investigators converse that Mijangos institute victims on peer-to-peer networks, in which individual machine users deal files and act pathways. In whatever cases he allegedly utilised the soubriquet “guicho,” which agents institute printed on T-shirts at his home.

According to an affidavit, Mijangos dispatched discover files covert as favourite songs that contained vindictive machine code. The malware pussy the victims’ computers and was passed to their friends’ and relatives’ machines in the modify of pussy fast messages, polity said.

“Once he had curb of a computer, Mijangos searched for sexually definitive or hint images and videos of women, typically teen women and girls in different states of uncase or geared in sexed acts with their partners,” according to the statement.

He also hacked e-mail accounts and, move as whatever victims’ boyfriends, asked them to attain pornographic videos, polity said.

Occasionally, Mijangos was healthy to remotely invoke on whatever victims’ webcams to grownup them in “intimate situations,” the U.S. attorney’s evidence said.

Prosecutors converse that Mijangos contacted whatever victims and threatened to dispense their sexually definitive videos to their machine contacts unless they prefabricated added videos for him or if they went to the police.

“He preyed upon these teen women and girls’ unwillingness to hit another grouping undergo destined things most their lives,” Mrozek said.

Mijangos pussy more than 100 computers that were utilised by most 230 people, including at small 44 who were minors, the FBI said.

The FBI enquiry began after personnel in the Los Angeles community Glendale conventional a victim’s complaint.

In August 2008, a individual in Washington, famous as “K.S.” in the affidavit, conventional an e-mail from Mijangos that contained pornographic pictures of her, the affidavit said. Mijangos allegedly threatened the blackamoor in a after e-mail and demanded she create and beam a pornographic recording of herself or he would promulgation the pictures and guy her “dark side” to her family.

A 17-year-old victim, referred to as “T.Y.” in the affidavit, conventional an fast communication from her miss named “scary” that contained vindictive code that could remotely invoke on scheme cameras and microphones, the affidavit said. Even though she did not unstoppered the attachment, both she and her miss conceive their laptops had been hacked because they detected their scheme cameras had been motion on and soured without their authorisation or input.

Mijangos recognized to FBI agents that he hacked the computers but said he did so at the letter of the victims’ boyfriends and husbands to watch whether the victims were deceit on them, polity said.

His origin chance is ordered for July 13 and he is regular to be arraigned July 19, where he module plead “not guilty,” his professional said.

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