Described as the King of Revenge Porn and professional life ruiner, Hunter Moore has been locked up and given a 2.5 year prison sentence. Moore plead guilty to computer hacking and aggravated identity theft in February.

[thumbleft=7320‘Revenge porn' is the act of publishing intimate photos on public forums and social media sites without the subject's consent, with the intent of publicly humiliating those featured in them.

Moore set up IsAnyoneUp.com in 2010 were he would post pictures of naked women and men on the site. Although some of the pictures were uploaded by vengeful ex-boy or girl friends, 40% were literally stolen from private computers, with the aid of sidekick, Charlie Evens.

The FBI released this statement: “Moore allegedly instructed Evens to gain unauthorised access to – in other words, to hack into – victims' e-mail accounts. Moore sent payments to Evens in exchange for nude photos obtained unlawfully from the victims' accounts. Moore then posted the illegally obtained photos on his website, without the victims' consent. The indictment alleges that Evens hacked into email accounts belonging to hundreds of victims.”

Moore sold the site in 2012, claiming he no longer had the energy to manage the site which was so regularly the target of legal threats and subject to several embarrassing moments where images of children as young as nine were posted.

Although he was constantly subject to lawsuits, Moore was protected by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects the owners of websites from facing the legal consequences of content posted by that sites users.

Moore was arrested along with Evens at the beginning of 2014 by the FBI. He receives a 2.5 year sentence while Evans got two years and four months.

As of October this year, there have been 200 reported cases of revenge Porn, most of which involved pictures of women distributed by their ex-boyfriends.

Source: SCMagazine