The companies that have complied with the bogus requests include Meta Platforms, Apple, Alphabet’s Google, Snap, Twitter and Discord, according to three of the people. All of the people requested anonymity to speak frankly about the devious new brand of online crime that involves underage victims.
The fraudulently obtained data has been used to target specific women and minors, and in some cases to pressure them into creating and sharing sexually explicit material and to retaliate against them if they refuse, according to the six people.
US tech giants 'duped' into giving up data used to sexually extort minors
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It never ends with those "people"
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Hey, they said they where "duped", dontcha know!
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