Illinois man sentenced to over six years for hacking Snapchat accounts and distributing CSAM | brief

Identity, Privacy (Adobe Stock) Coverage from Bleeping Computer indicates that an Illinois man has been sentenced to 76 months in prison for hacking into the Snapchat accounts of over 750 women. The defendant, Kyle Svara, also admitted to distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Between May 2020 and February 2021, Kyle Svara, 26, used social engineering tactics and posed as a Snap Inc. representative to phish for Snapchat credentials from over 4,500 victims. He accessed approximately 517 women’s accounts without permission to download nude or semi-nude photos and then enabled two-factor authentication to lock them out. Investigators also discovered approximately 530 images and 600 videos depicting CSAM within Svara’s cloud storage account. Svara also advertised his hacking services online, trading stolen images and offering to access accounts for clients. One such client, former track and field coach Steve Waithe, was sentenced to five years in prison for sextortion after hiring Svara to hack student-athletes’ accounts. Svara’s independent hacking also targeted women in Illinois and students at Colby College. Source: Bleeping Computer Related Get daily email updates SC Media’s daily must-read of the most current and pressing daily news
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