"He allegedly used those means of identification to access victim Snapchat accounts, which prompted Snap Inc. to send account security codes to victims. Using anonymized phone numbers, Svara allegedly posed as a representative of Snap Inc. and texted more than 4,500 victims requesting those Snapchat access codes. When approximately 570 women provided those codes, it is alleged that Svara accessed the Snapchat accounts of at least 59 women without permission and downloaded their nude or semi-nude images."
"As further detailed in the charging documents, one of Svara's co-conspirators was Steve Waithe, a former Track and Field Coach at Northeastern University who allegedly hired and paid Svara to hack the Snapchat accounts of women Waithe coached or had other relationships with. In November 2023, Waithe was convicted in federal court in Boston of 12 counts of wire fraud; one count of cyberstalking; one count of cyberstalking;"
From May 2020 to February 2021, Kyle Svara used social engineering and other resources to collect victim emails, phone numbers, and Snapchat usernames. He used those identifiers to access Snapchat accounts, which prompted Snap Inc. to send security codes. Using anonymized phone numbers, he texted over 4,500 victims requesting those codes; about 570 victims provided codes. Svara allegedly accessed at least 59 accounts without permission and downloaded nude or semi-nude images. He sold, traded, or kept the stolen images on internet forums and in transactions for hire. One co-conspirator, Steve Waithe, allegedly paid Svara to hack accounts of women he coached; Waithe was later convicted in federal court.
Read at DataBreaches.Net
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