PESHAWAR: The Federal Investigation Agency’s Cyber Crime Wing has arrested a young person here on the charges of child pornography and criminal intimidation after receiving a complaint from its US counterpart, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), about the accused hacking the Snapchat account of a minor American girl and blackmailing her. The FIA officials told Dawn that Anas Tariq, son of a retired government official, was taken into custody late on Wednesday from Phase VI area of Hayatabad. Tahir Khan, deputy director of the FIA Cyber Crime Wing, said the youth, who was a BBA student in a local university, was arrested on the basis of the information provided by the FBI. He said according to the information shared by the US authorities, the accused hacked the Snapchat account of a minor girl from Reston, Virginia, accessed her nude pictures on the account, and tried to coerce her into a nude video-chat. The official said though the FIA was sending the accused’s mobile phone for forensic analysis, the data recovered earlier corroborated the charges against him. Action taken on FBI’s complaint He said the First Information Report had been registered against the accused at the Police Station Cyber Crime Reporting…
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FIA arrests Peshawar youth for child pornography, intimidation – Newspaper – DAWN.COM
