‘A living nightmare’: WA man gets 10 years for hacking Snapchat accounts, soliciting child abuse

This story was originally posted on MyNorthwest.com A 32-year-old man from La Center was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for a scheme to access private photos by posing as tech support to hack accounts on Snapchat, a social media app. Dylan Rex was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to 16 counts of various crimes, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday. In August 2025, Rex pleaded guilty to seven counts of wire fraud, seven counts of computer fraud, one count of child pornography possession, and one count of attempted enticement of a minor. “This defendant is the dangerous stranger lurking on the internet that every parent fears,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd stated. “And he made the deception even worse by posing as tech support to get access to private images. I commend the cyber investigators at the FBI for bringing him to justice.” WA man defrauded more than 170 victims Between July 2020 and March 2023, Rex defrauded more than 170 victims of their private and intimate photos that were stored in their Snapchat accounts, according to records filed in the case. Rex would use
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