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Ryan J. Vallee, 22, from New Hampshire, pleaded guilty last week to 31 charges for several crimes, among which were hacking and attempts to extort victims into sending sexually explicit pictures. According to investigators, Vallee, between 2011 and March 2016, hacked the online accounts of his victims, including emails, Facebook and Instagram profiles. Using aliases like Seth Williams and James McRow, Vallee engaged in anonymous communications with his victims, threating to release data he found, unless victims would provide sexually explicit images of them or their friends, in a tactic known as sextortion. Vallee hacked and defaced social media accounts According to a signed plea agreement, Vallee said he often took over his victim's social media accounts, locking the owners out. In cases where the victim did not respond to his threats, he defaced the accounts with compromising content. In a particular case, after obtaining sexually explicit im... ...