LOS ANGELES: A hacker took over more than 100 computers and used them to extort sexually explicit videos from women and teenage girls by threatening to release their personal data, federal prosecutors charged.
Luis Mijangos, 31, was arrested at his home by FBI agents and was scheduled to be arraigned yesterday on a charge of extortion that carries a maximum federal prison sentence of two years.
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