Woman charged with running webcam-hacking network
It’s not at unusual these days to hear stories of innocent people’s webcams being hacked. Typically the perpetrators are guys, getting their kicks out of snooping and spying covertly without the knowledge of their victim, sometimes furtively stealing snapshots or blackmailing young women into performing sexual acts on camera.
This is one of the reasons why it can be a good idea to keep your computer out of the bedroom, or at least cover the webcam’s camera when not in use.
But what is unusual is for the person arrested in connection with a spree of webcam hacks to be female. Canadian police report that they have arrested a 27-year-old woman from Saint-Alphonse-de-Rodriguez, Quebec, in connection with a spree of unpleasant attacks, where victims were spied upon and harassed through their webcams.
