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    Man sentenced to six years for antagonizing women through digital 'sextortion'

    By Mike Flacy | Digital Trends – Sat, Sep 3, 2011

    32-year-old Luis Mijangos was sentenced to six year in prison this week by a U.S. District Court judge in California after pleading guilty to one count of computer hacking and one count of wiretapping in March 2011. Mijangos, a resident of Santa Ana, California, worked as a freelance web designer and developer earning about $52,000 a year, but also spent his days using malware to gain access to people’s computers and extorting up to $3,000 a day from his victims. FBI experts in computer forensics estimated that Mijangos infected more than 100 computers used by over 230 people, 20 percent which were juveniles. 

    Mijangos worked with other criminals they he met over IRC to perfect malware that was undetectable by antivirus software. The malware was disguised as links to video or music to hide remote-access tools such as SpyNet and Poison Ivy. Through these programs, Mijangos was able to search computers for intimate or sexually-explicit photos of the women using the computers as well as watch the users of the computer through a webcam and listen through a built-in microphone.

    Mijangos would then contact the victim to demand money or explicit videos from them and threaten to distribute the existing photos to family and friends if they contacted the police. Mijangos also hacked into the email account of the boyfriend of a juvenile in order to request sexually-explicit photos or video from the female juvenile and subsequently threaten to expose them for more explicit material. 

    Beyond the many attempts of sextortion, Mijangos also installed keyloggers on the victim’s accounts to steal credit card numbers to purchase various electronics and other items. Many of the victims involved in the case spoke out at the sentencing trial to stress the damage caused by the disturbing psychological games that Mijangos forced upon them. Before pleading guilty to the charges, Mijangos told police that he was hired by husbands or boyfriends of the victims that were suspicious of cheating. 

     

    200 comments

    • wes
      wes  •  8 mths ago
      I like that (chop off his hands). That is the almost the only sensible comment I've seen today.
      • Purnell Meagre
        Purnell Meagre 8 mths ago
        if you can convert a hundred million or so people to Islam you might be able to get that kind of law in the U.S.
    • chris n
      chris n  •  8 mths ago
      6 years is plenty. Guys kill people driving drunk and stoned and get a month....serve 3weeks (Donte Stallworth) Believe me; When a white collar guy gets sent to Federal prison for years he will be shell shocked
    • TED
      TED  •  8 mths ago
      Well I guess he will see what taking sexual advantage is in prison!
    • christopher
      christopher  •  8 mths ago
      6 years, how about 60...
    • STFU
      STFU  •  8 mths ago
      digital 'sextortion'

      Does that mean that he used his fingers?
    • Gerald
      Gerald  •  8 mths ago
      We need to enact MUCH harsher laws against ALL "cyber crime", ID theft, etc. Man sells a few ounces of cocaine to some all-too-willing customers, he get's 20yrs. Man hacks or infects millions of PC's & or steals millions of dollars, identities, etc, he get's 10 lashes with a wet noodle and a 5 minute "time out". What is wrong with this picture?
    • Purnell Meagre
      Purnell Meagre  •  8 mths ago
      This has been an unusually fun topic to post on - people are rabid about it! I made a joke and was thumbs downed 24 to zip another comment was something like 24 to 6 against. Well, I hope everyone enjoys the Republican debate this week. I don't know whether to watch it or flip over to a midget wrestling match. I guess it amounts to about the same anyway. Good night!
    • Harley
      Harley  •  8 mths ago
      Only 6 years? Did he have to register as a sex offender? If not, he should have! This guy is at the very bottom of society!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      I have nothing to worry about: I use Linux.
      • Jigs-n-fixtures
        Jigs-n-fixtures 8 mths ago
        Easier to hack. Just most hackers don't bother because it is such a small percentage of users. But then again, since none of you have decent security it might be worth the minimal investment.
    • Benedetto
      Benedetto  •  8 mths ago
      Right in my neighborhood! Likely, an illegal why not just deport this freaking piece of trash. I had all my things taken from my car by illegals who did the same thing; buy #$%$ with my credit cards. I kept on the police until they got the criminals and arrested them. These people think they are entitled to do whatever they want. #$%$
    • jody
      jody  •  8 mths ago
      Why in the world do people put such photo's on their computers in the FIRST place? And even on their cell phones? If they don't want anyone to see such things...then they should have never put them there for all to see!
      • Gerald
        Gerald 8 mths ago
        Keyword is on "THEIR" PC. They never intended for a person the hack the PC and steal the photos.
      • wes
        wes 8 mths ago
        I partly agree, Gerald. The only problem is that there are those like this bum who make it their business to steal the contents of those not so private computers. Jody has it right asking the question she has.
      • BMan
        BMan 8 mths ago
        Jody, they didn't "put them there for all to see." If the guy had broken into their homes and installed hidden cameras in their bathrooms or stolen their stashes of nude Polaroids from their dresser drawers, would you ask why they were standing naked in their showers for all to see or why they had put those pictures in their dressers for all to see? Having said that, I do think that keeping personal data on your computer without encrypting it is just as foolish as leaving the doors to your house open when you're away.
    • shred1
      shred1  •  8 mths ago
      this guy should be on the government payroll, just think of the secrets he could get for us from all the other countries like china that have stole many of our secrets in the past and will in the future if we don't have minds like his on our side.
    • Joe F
      Joe F  •  8 mths ago
      Take him out back behind the police station & beat his #$%$ silly with a 2ft. section of a garden hose. Invite all his victims over to give a dozen or so whacks each & then send his butt to prison!.
    • michaels
      michaels  •  8 mths ago
      If he was black da niqqers would put him on pimp status and he be kewl, Al Chit-tone might even come to his defense.
      • A Yahoo! User 8 mths ago
        Oh come on, if he were black he wouldn't have half the brains he'd need for crime like this.
    • michael
      michael  •  8 mths ago
      just realized the being old and ugly keeps the wierdos away. now if i could just get rid of the scam artists.
      • jody
        jody 8 mths ago
        LOL....you're SO right buddy! We don't have a thing to worry about, do we?
    • touchthemound
      touchthemound  •  8 mths ago
      Luis had his sombrero confiscated by the presiding judge. The silver toed boots are next to go!
    • XX
      XX  •  8 mths ago
      stupidity in many forms. Females get smart will ya.
    • Fidel Menchaca
      Fidel Menchaca  •  8 mths ago
      I didn't see where this person had to pay back any of the $3,000.00 per day he took from people he blackmailed. Sounds like when he gets out in a couple of years, he will be able to use that money to start over.
    • Sporky McCrackin
      Sporky McCrackin  •  8 mths ago
      Good. Six years is a good start. It will be a life sentence for him because he will be buggered by aids infected inmates and he will eventually die of aids. Oh well. No loss.
    • Balsam
      Balsam  •  8 mths ago
      This man is a Latino and naturally bent on crime because he cannot distinguish right from wrong. Do we have enough prison space and resources to incarcerate all Spanish criminals who now make up 20% of our population? What about the future, when their numbers would quadruple at the rate they are multiplying?
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