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US 'revenge porn' website owner arrested
Two men accused of hacking into email accounts to obtain nude photos of women.
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.
The men reportedly posted explicit images, submitted without the victim's permission, to IsAnyoneUp.com.
If guilty, they face decades in prison.
Moore operated a website which posted sexually explicit images for the purposes of revenge.
Mr Moore is said to have paid Mr Evens to hack into hundreds of victims' email accounts to obtain more nude photos to post on the website.
The illegally obtained photos were then put online without the consent of those pictured.
Awareness about revenge porn in Malta grew in the past weeks after a number of 'naked selfies' taken by girls - young adults and women - ended up being posted publicly online. The pictures were reportedly first shared by a group of young men on a private Facebook group but were then uploaded on a Tumblr blog called 'Maltese girls caught on camera'.
