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Mounties nab Canadian woman, 27, in webcam hack shenanigans bust


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Nefarious pervert hacks parlour cameras for heavy petting pwnage

1 May 2015 at 05:53, Alexander J Martin
 
The suspect – who allegedly used a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) to spy on her victims through their web cameras and harass them – appeared in court today and was charged with four counts related to the unauthorised use of a computer and mischief in relation to computer data.
 
"The investigation shows that the suspect used various methods to harass her victims, including by eavesdropping on private conversations and by communicating with victims through the speakers of their infected computers," says the RCMP statement.
 
"She also frightened her victims by taking over control of their computers and by logging on to extreme pornography websites. Her victims included underage children both in Canada and abroad," the Mounties added.
 
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Now that is a sick puppy the judge should throw the book at her.

By AFP on April 30, 2015
 
Ottawa - Federal police arrested a Canadian woman Wednesday accused of remotely taking over people's computers and spying on them using their own webcams.
The 27-year-old suspect, who allegedly leads on online hacker forum with 35,000 members worldwide, used malicious software to infect and take over others' computers, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.
She is believed to be "at the origin of a botnet, i.e. a group of computers infected by a virus and remotely controlled by a hacker," police said, declining to identify her.
 
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Tip of the iceberg...tip of the iceberg.  Just wondering why this is deemed news worthy (not by you, Anthony, but by the site publishing the article)...unless this is the only one that has been caught recently.
 
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