SEXTORTION: Miss Teen’s Webcam Got Hacked, Freak Threatens to Release Nude Pics, FBI Involved Now

The newly crowned Miss Teen USA has now come forward with new details of the moment a hacker revealed himself and tried to extort her with nude photos he took using her own computer’s webcam.

Without her knowledge, the hacker could watch and photograph Cassidy Wolf, a 19-year-old who took the Miss Teen USA crown in early August. He contacted Wolf and threatened to go public with the photos unless she gave him a special ‘performance.’

Now the college freshman is speaking out against so-called ‘sextortion’ in order to spread the word and teach other young women how to avoid it.

‘I was terrified,’ she said Thursday in an interview with Today. ‘I started screaming, bawling my eyes out. I was on the phone with my mom, and I felt helpless because I wasn’t sure what to do, so it was a very terrifying moment.’

Through an anonymous email address, the cyber stalker attempted to extort Wolf for sexual favors, hence the term ‘sextortion.’

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