http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10338505/Man-arrested-after-hacking-into-Miss-Teen-USAs-webcam.html
On September 27th 2013, Jared James Abrahams was arrested by the FBI after hacking into multiple webcams in California and also Canada, Russia and Moldova. Miss Teen USA, Cassidy Wolf, was one of the victims of these hackings. Abrahams hacked into the webcam on Wolfs laptop and told her that if she did not send him a personal video of herself, joined him on Skype for a video chat or sent him high quality pictures of herself, he would distribute webcam shots of her all over the internet. Abrahams appeared in court and was later released after a $50,000 bail.
This online crime seems to be motivated by disinhibition. It seems like the hacker believed that no one could determine who he was, and so he went on and hacked into these girls webcams, and then started interacting with them. We could say that this is a case of "Dissocative Anynomity", which means that the Abrahams thought he had the opportunity to separate his online actions from his public life and to be disconnected from the consequences of his actions, or at least though that there was little chance that his identity would be reviled and he would be caught. To which degree he actually convinced himself that his behaviours online was him or not, is hard to tell based on the info of this article.
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