Man Uses Facebook to get Answers to Security Questions to Access Womens Emails and Post their Nude Photos on Wall

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Man stole nude photos from women's e-mail accounts

A California man has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into the e-mail accounts of thousands of women, scouring them for nude photos that he then posted to the Internet.

George Bronk pleaded guilty Thusday to charges that he hacked into more than 3,200 email accounts looking for nude or compromising photos. He then posted many of these photos to his victims' Facebook pages. Image credit: Office of the Attorney General of California

George Bronk, 23, was arrested in late October after police found evidence that he'd hacked into more than 3,200 e-mail accounts. He used the same technique that Sarah Palin hacker David Kernell used to break into the former U.S. vice presidential candidate's Yahoo account: He scoured his victims' Facebook accounts for answers to the security questions used by Web-based e-mail services such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail.

Then, posing as his victim, he would claim to have forgotten the account's password and try to answer the security questions that would let him back in. Often, the security questions are easy to guess. The questions Bronk faced asked him things like, "What is your high school mascot?" and "What is your father's middle name?" Read more at www.itworld.com

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