The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Anthony Fritzinger, who was stationed at Cherry Point, preyed on vulnerable children.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Coming up, New Mexico claims Snap failed to warn users about sextortion risks on its platform. We'll tell you about the state's case and Snap's response to the lawsuit after the break.

BEAUMONT, Texas — It's called "sextortion" and involves children and teens being threatened and coerced into sending explicit images online. The FBI has seen a huge increase in cases and so far ...

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 ...