http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asec-sex-hacker-extortion-031709,0,3650679.story By Amy L. Edwards The Orlando Sentinel Sentinel Staff Writer March 17, 2009 For years, Patrick Connolly terrorized girls across the globe, federal investigators say. He scoured the Web for unsuspecting teens, chatted them up, then hacked into their computers and issued a threat: Send nude pictures and sex videos of yourself — or else. Connolly, a contractor at a U.S. military base in Baghdad, and another man victimized about 4,000 young women across the world, including Florida, according to a criminal complaint made public Monday. Connolly hounded an Orlando teen for several years, even traveling to the United States and showing up at her work in 2004. The two men knew how to take control of computers — monitoring what girls were typing, deleting their files, and spying on their pictures and music files, investigators allege. Authorities arrested Connolly, 36, on Friday at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It was not immediately clear why he flew to Georgia. Connolly, a citizen of Northern Ireland, waived a court appearance in Georgia on Monday and will be brought to Orlando. He was arrested on a charge of computer intrusion, more commonly known as hacking, but the complaint outlined many more serious potential charges. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Mar 18 2009 - 00:28:22 PDT
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