Kevin M Maldonado, a 35-year-old man from Alabama, is facing six months in jail for hacking into at least 50 accounts of women.

Some of them he knew. Some of them he didn’t. But he spent two years hacking and tormenting at least 50 women.

From the sentencing memorandum:

He targeted women he knew and women he did not; women he had been romantically involved with and women he merely interacted with briefly; women with whom he had a connection, like a shared military history or high school and women who he found on the internet; and women who lived or worked near him in Shelby County, Alabama, and others who lived across the country and he was unlikely to ever see. The only thing that the defendant’s victims had in common was the defendant’s desire to delve into the details of their lives for his own pleasure.

He was on a quest:

The defendant spent countless hours creating numerous fictitious email accounts impersonating email administrators from multiple email providers; sending numerous emails from these accounts demanding login and password information; and then frequently checking the fictitious email accounts for response emails from victims.

The defendant also spent untold hours trolling the accounts he accessed via phishing for additional password information and conducting extensive open source research, for example on websites such as spokeo.com, on potential victims and making note of information about them including birth dates, places of employment, collegiate affiliations, etc. He then used this information to try to guess victims’ passwords, or answer the security questions necessary to re-set them.

His short prison term will be followed up with three years supervised probation.

Source: Naked Security