Cases of sextortion -- conning teens to share explicit images online and then using the images for blackmail -- have so far this year already passed the number of incidents reported in the state in ...

Snapchat failed to adequately warn its users about the extent of rampant “sextortion schemes” targeting underage users – even as employees debated internally about how to address the crisis ...

Deputies described it as a sextortion case. “Sextortion is a term used to describe the act of pressuring another person to send inappropriate images and then threatening to release them in an ...

Between October 2024 and March 2025, the FBI reported a 30% increase in reported sextortion crimes and the number of actual ...

Current advice issued by Metropolitan Police regarding 'sextortion' after 14-year-old US boy dies by suicide after thinking ...

He said he found proof that sextortion is happening on Snapchat and that after seeing the complaints, the company continued to turn a blind eye."It is not only a place where explicit sexual ...

It also alleges that in 2022 "Snap employees were discussing 10,000 user reports of sextortion each ... Torrez's suit alleges Snap employees pointed to "a case where an account had 75 different ...

In the Snapchat case, unsealed documents show employees were alarmed about the extent of the problem. TORREZ: Snap had numerous individuals inside the company raising red flags about potential harm.

URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — After a string of sextortion cases, the University of Illinois Police Department is giving students tips to prevent being a victim of a crime. In the past 10 days, UIPD ...

FBI seeing increase in 'sextortion' cases targeting children, teens The Houston field office of the FBI has received 80 sextortion reports in 2024 for the Gulf Coast region. To stream 12NewsNow on ...

Snapchat failed to adequately warn its users about the extent of rampant “sextortion schemes” targeting underage users – even as employees debated internally about how to address the crisis ...