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Oswego man pleads guilty in federal court to hacking Snapchat accounts to steal, sell nude photos · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego man pleads guilty in federal court to hacking Snapchat
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  accounts to steel sell nude photos. Written by Eric Schlkoff.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. An Oswego man recently pleaded guilty
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  in a federal court in Boston to fishing the Snapchat
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  access codes of almost six hundred women in an attempt
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  to hack their Snapchat accounts and steal nude photos, which
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  he kept, sold or traded on the internet. Kyle Zvara,
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  twenty seven, pleaded guilty on February fourth to aggravated identity theft,
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  wire fraud, computer fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and
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  false statements related to child pornography. According to the US
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  Attorney's Office in Boston, Sentencing is set for May eighteenth.
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  Zverara was charged in December twenty twenty five. From at
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  least May twenty twenty to February twenty twenty one, Savara
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  used social engineering and other resources to collect victim emails,
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  phone numbers, and or Snapchat user names. According to the
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  US Attorney's Office, he posed as a representative of Snappink
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  and texted more than forty five hundred victims requesting their
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  Snapchat access codes, The US Attorney's office said, what about
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  five hundred and seventy women provided those codes? Savara accessed
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  the Snapchat accounts of at least fifty nine women without
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  permission and downloaded their nude or semi nude images. The
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  US Attorney's office said. Once he had the stolen images,
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  Savara sold or traded them on internet forums or in
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  transactions with others who had hired him to hack the
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  Snapchat accounts. The US Attorney's office said Steve Way, the
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  former track and field coach at Northeastern University in Boston,
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  hired and paid Svara to hack the Snapchat accounts of
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  women Wave coached or with whom he had other relationships,
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  the US Attorney's office said. In twenty three, Wave was
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  convicted in federal court and Boston of twelve counts of
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  wire fraud, one count of cyberstocking, one count of conspiracy
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  to commit computer fraud, and one count of computer fraud,
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  aiding and abetting. The US Attorney's office said Wade was
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  sentenced to five years in prison in March twenty twenty four.
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  In addition to the women Wath and others hired Svara
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  to hack. The US Attorney's Office said. Zvara also targeted
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  women who resided in or around Plainfield or who were
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  students at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.